Re: Run time error: Division by zero???

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From: Stefan Monnier
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:00

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martinbm@wins.uva.nl (Martin Bergman) writes:
> 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.

You have to understand that the Pascal family of languages is very different
from one country to the other, and being a most different country, the
swiss dialect of Pascal (as spoken by all members of ch.general or close
enough) like to complain about "Division by zero" to make fun of people
naively submitting US-Pascal programs without going through the trouble of
translating them first.

        Stefan

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Subject: Re: Run time error: Division by zero???
Date: 1997/09/11
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