The Pascal compiler company
The Pascal compiler company
Standard Pascal requires that all characters written to a file should appear when the file is read (the exception to this is that implementations are allowed to designate a set of characters as prohibited from text files and treat these characters specially). The Windows edition of Irie Pascal does not comply fully with this requirement, since with this edition carriage-return characters do not appear when individual characters are read from text files. This treatment of carriage-return characters is intended to convert carriage-return/line-feed pairs (that are used as end-of-line markers in some text files) into a single end-of-line character (i.e. a line-feed chr(10)).