From: harveybrown2@pwsb33.ab.ca   
      
   I "get myself into a lot of trouble" reading old binary files saved   
   before we got word alignment.  If I don't put {$A-} in my unit and read   
   these files of records, I see the data shifted a byte or two ahead in   
   the memory structure holding the record, and by the time the second   
   record of the file is read in, it is absolute garbage.  There must be   
   something to the argument that the $A directive affects the reading of   
   records.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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