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. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal