[fpc-pascal] Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 71, Issue 69

[Jürgen Hestermann]

> Roger Bailey schrieb:
> OK, I give up. How do you handle standard input and output files in FPC? When I write something like:
> 	nextcharacter := input^
> I get "error: 1: Illegal qualifier". Does FPC not support this standard Pascal feature?

I have never seen such a syntax before. Shouldn't this be done via READ (and WRITE)? They apply to standard input and output when giving no file name as first parameter. So with

var c : char;

read(c); 

should read the next character from standard input I think.