[comp.sys.apple] TML Pascal problem solved

dgiles@polyslo.UUCP (Darren Giles) (04/29/88)

  I finally figured out the solution to the problem of addressing
individual bytes in a file.  Not only do the bytes to be written out have
to be of the right type (TYPE byte= 0..255), but the file itself have
to be of the right type (and 0..255 doesn't work, but 0..127 does, for
some bizzare reason).

  Don't get me wrong here - I love TML Pascal - but if you define a file
as type char, what possible reason would there be for wasting an extra
byte for each character (it stores characters as two bytes)?
 
                                             - Darren