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18/10/2002 10:08:01 a.m., [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have been playing around with writing a random file in VisualBasic which >works OK, then thought I would use BP 7 to access this random file and so >created a record which I thought would be identical. > >I was getting garbage with the Pascal program so... > >When I look at the size of each, the BASIC version is 45 bytes and the >Pascal Version is 46 !!?? > >VB ... size is 45 >Type People > InUse as Boolean > RecPos as Integer > Tag as Integer > Total as Integer > ID as Integer > FirstName as String * 15 > LastName as String * 20 >end Type > >Pascal ... size is 46 >Person = Record > InUse : Boolean; > RecPos : Integer; > Tag : Integer; > Total : Integer; > ID : Integer; > FirstName : String[15]; > LastName : String[20]; >end; > >where is the problem? What is the solution? > > >Laurie.. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz >To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with body of "unsubscribe delphi" >Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/