According to Miguel A. Alonso Pardo:

Unit Initializers

begin ... end. to begin do begin ... end; to end do begin ... end;

does not work on our Alpha machines with Digital Unix 4.0. [...] gpc version 2.0(2.7.2.1)

Upgrading to a more recent (beta or alpha) GPC will solve this problem. Please go to ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/ to get the most recent version of GPC (source code only, sorry). Hope this helps, Peter -- Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer Maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ - 1 Oct 1997 PGP key fingerprint: AC 6C 94 45 BE 28 A4 96 0E CC E9 12 47 25 82 75 Fight the SPAM! - http://maps.vix.com/