Text                     Text Files                                 File Type

    The predefined file type Text is roughly (but not exactly) equivalent
    to "file of Char". It is used with ASCII text files that can be read
    in as if from the keyboard and can be written to as if to the screen.

    In reading from a text file, Read and Readln will automatically
    convert from ASCII text to Integer, Byte, Real, Char, and string.

    Likewise, when writing out to a text file, Write and Writeln will
    automatically convert from Integer, Byte, Real, Char, Boolean, and
    string to ASCII text.

    Text files are made up of lines of text terminated by end-of-line
    markers. The file is terminated with an end-of-file marker. Text files
    can only be processed sequentially, and simultaneous input and output
    is not allowed. When a newly created text file is closed, an end-of-
    file marker is automatically appended to the end of the file.

    Turbo Pascal allows the defining of the buffer size to be used with
    Text files. By default, the buffer size is 128 bytes. The following
    statement will declare a text file variable with a buffer size of 4K
    bytes:

         var
           TFile : Text [$1000];

    The example below opens the text file MYFILE.TXT and displays its
    contents on the screen.

  -------------------------------- Example ---------------------------------

           var
             InFile  : text;
             Line    : string[80];

           begin
             Assign(InFile,'MYFILE.TXT');
             Reset(InFile);
             while not EOF(InFile) do begin
               Readln(Infile,Line);
               Writeln(Line)
             end;
             Close(InFile)
           end.