Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > No, because you don't know if a terminal is available or whether > standard output is writable.
As far as I know stdout is always available for Linux. Even if I compile applications for X11 and launch them from a desktop icon, I can do writeln() calls without problems (unlike under Windows which will throw an error). Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal