From: nntp-2005-02@t-domaingrabbing.de   
      
   Stephen Posey wrote:   
      
   > You'll get yourself into a lot of trouble reading binary files into   
   > data structures if the byte alignment of your structures doesn't match   
   > the byte alignment that was used to create the file.   
      
   The switch doesn't apply to records, just to items declared in the data   
   segment. Record variables are always packed with no alignment at all,   
   just as if the keyword packed would have been specified in the   
   declaration, regardless of the {$A} switch.   
      
      
   Vinzent.   
      
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