Accordnig to both ISO standards, readln(f) should be equivalent to get(f), when eoln(f) is true. In GPC the former seems to be implemented as lazy I/O, while the latter does not. Here is an example (enter three lines of text to test it). ---------------------------- program echo3lines(input,output); procedure copyline; begin while not eoln do begin output^:=input^; get(input); put(output) end end; begin write('Enter the first line: '); copyline; readln; writeln; write('Enter the second line: '); copyline; get(input); writeln; write('Enter the last line: '); copyline; readln; writeln end. ---------------------------------------- Is this a bug or a feature? Emil Jerabek