From: Bill_Leary@msn.com   
      
   "Ether Jones"  wrote in message   
   news:1136957838.403908.231990@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > I appreciate the thought but that won't work for me.  I considered   
   > that (fleetingly) but I don't want to spend the time writing a READLN   
   > replacement with acceptable functionality.   
      
   Don't modify READLN or replace it.   
      
   Instead, insert your own Text File Device Drivers.  For Turbo 5 / 5.5 it's   
   explained in the chapter titled "Inside Turbo Pascal" and consists of four   
   routines, "Open," "InOut," "Flush" and "Close."  There are examples in there   
   about how to do it.   
      
   > The code you showed does   
   > no editing (e.g backspace), and only accepts strings and   
   > not numbers.   
      
   If you replace the text driver instead, all the upper layer stuff works   
   normally.   
      
   > Surely someone somewhere has solved this problem already.   
      
   I think so.  Try Simtel or other sites which still have a DOS download section.   
      
       - Bill   
      
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