reading from a typed file

26 Nov 1997


      Hello,

	I have a couple questions about the code sample at the bottom
of this message: 

	1) is the following legal Pascal code?  My gut feeling is that
it isn't (my only other Pascal system -- albeit an interpreter, doesn't
take it either), but I've never really played with typed files enough
to know what to expect. 

	2) I take it GPC should do something more graceful than dump
core (OS/2) or give a fatal signal (Linux), even if the source is
invalid?  :)  This is with the 971001 beta.

program readdata(input, output, inputfile);

var
        inputfile : file of char;
        temp : array[1..10] of char;

begin
        reset(inputfile, 'test');
        read(inputfile, temp);
        writeln(temp);
        close(inputfile);
end.

-Kevin
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