On Mon, July 7, 2008 12:11, leledumbo wrote: > > So, what's the purpose of having them?
That's the part I could not answer myself and asked others who could remember the reasons for introducing it. There may have been technical reasons like support for "absolute" keyword (which could support a real alias) missing with some targets/platforms, or some reasons why there should be two distinct text files with their own buffers, possibly different I/O handlers and using different output device/handle. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal