dpb@genrad.UUCP (Dave P. Bernier) (12/09/86)
Help!! (what an interesting way to start an article :-) ) I am having a great deal of difficulty with my copy of Turbo Pascal. When I type in any program at all, it gives me a "Run Time Error Found" message. Even if the program looks like: Program test(input, output); Begin Writeln('hello) End. It says that the error was located in line 2, or whereever the next line of code occurs. I have done nothing to the disk. I have tried the disk in other system, and I get the same results. Is this problem with my copy? if so, can it be fixed? How? Should I give up, and get another copy? (this is a backup that is erroring, I just want to see if I can fix it before copy it off the master.) Thanks, David Bernier =#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#= Snail-Mail E-Mail David Bernier 300 Baker Avenue decvax!genrad!dpb Concord, MA 01742 Mail Stop #26 =#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#= I finally got it all together....Now I've forgotten where the hell I put it. =#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=
vanzandt@uiucdcsp.UUCP (12/11/86)
If that is exactly what you typed in, you do indeed have an error. Try: Program Test; Begin Writeln('Hello'); End. 3 things here: (1) Turbo Pascal does pay attention to the (input, output) specifier in the header (not Ver 2.0 anyway). (2) You forgot your end quote after Hello. (3) It might require the semi-colon after the writeln even though standard Pascal doesn't. Good Luck...