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doubt in clrscr

doubt in clrscr

doubt in clrscr

(OP)
Hai friends,
Iam using Turbo Pascal 7.0.

In this simple program:

program test(input,output);
begin
 clrscr;
 writeln;
 Writeln('Hello');
 Readln;
end.

Here, in this program in line 3 (ie) clrscr;

Its giving an error saying unknown identifier.

I want to clear the screen and show the output.

Kindly advice me as regards this.

Regards
Uma.

RE: doubt in clrscr

clrscr is declared in the crt unit.

try this:

program test(input,output);
uses crt; { <- add this line }
begin
 clrscr;
 writeln;
 Writeln('Hello');
 Readln;
end.

RE: doubt in clrscr

(OP)
Hai,
Thanx for ur reply. But I have added uses Crt in the program

(ie)
program test(input,output);
uses Crt;
 begin
 clrscr;
 writeln;
 Writeln('Hello');
 Readln;
 end.


But its giving a runtime error as Division by zero for this. Plz help me as Iam desperate.

RE: doubt in clrscr

Yes, this is a well known fault in turbo pascal. The reason is that you are using a fast computer. One of the functions of the crt unit is to do some timing, and for this it begins by establishing the speed of your computer by counting up from zero while it times something. If the machine is very fast, the count never gets beyond zero, and crt causes a division-by-zero error before the program even starts to run.

But all is not lost! Because this is well known, there are already a lot of replacement crt units and patches written by friendly lovers of Pascal. Do some web-searching and you'll find one.

I've never bothered because I only use crt for keypress functions, so when i found out about that error I just wrote my own call-to-dos for keypresses, and haven't used crt since.

Hope this helps,

Lionel

(Oh, and compliments to Borland, it's a very rare thing to find a bug in their compilers)

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