On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Alan Mead wrote:
>
> --- James Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:48:06AM -0700, Alan Mead wrote:
> > > I'm running into this string problem as well. I'd like to use
> > > strings longer than 255 but I get strange errors like:
> > >
> [...]
>
> > I believe there is a compiler switch.
>
>
> If there is, I cannot find it. {$H} does nothing and I re-read the
> portion of the docs that deal with the sting types again and I don't
> see what I'm doing wrong.
{$H+}
or
{$H-}
definitely works.
>
> If I declare "stmp: ansiString;" then the executable compiles and
> links fine but the strings don't actually work. For example, I
> "readln(txt,stmp);" and stmp only receives the first 255 columns of
> the file.
what version are you using ?
Michael.
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