[DUG]: Can I read an object where a record worked?

[Roser, Wayne]

I have been reading fixed length records from a file using:
        Read(AFileName, ARecordName);

I wanted to convert the record to a class so it could have methods so I
changed the definition from something like:
        TMyRecordType = record
                field1: array[1..3] of char;
                field2: array[1..175] of char;
        end;

to:
        
        TMyRecordType = class
        //I might have put 'private' here
                field1: array[1..3] of char;
                field2: array[1..175] of char;
        end;

At this point, Read(AFileName, ARecordName) didn't seem to cause any
problems, except that it field1 is always [#0, #0, #0] and field 2 similarly
empty. Am I on the wrong track?

Wayne

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