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> I'm posting this question for a friend of mine. Recently he bought an
> original release of Turbo Pascal 7.0 for DOS for his PC running
> Windows 95. The installation of the programs is straightforward and
> without any problems. At least so it seems. When he tries to run
> the following very small program unexpected things happen.
> PROGRAM Dummy;
> USES Crt;
> BEGIN
>    Writeln 'Hello world';
> END.
> Compiling and building the executable are also without problems.
> But when he tries to run the program in most cases he will get
> the run time error message:
>   Run time error: Division by zero.
> 
> To make things even stranger, sometimes the execution of the program
> produces 'Hello world', as expected.
> Of course when the Crt line is omitted the program executes as it
> should.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea where this problem comes from and how
> to solve it?

Well the only thing I can see is that "writeln" line should be

writeln ('Hello world');

Put brackets around the things in the single quotation marks...

Make sure he's compiling to REAL MODE as well... :-)

> Thanks in advance,
Thats ok in retrospect... ;)