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\line{\bf {\tt OUTPUT} and output.\hfill}

The results printed by your programs go into a file called {\tt OUTPUT}.  This is
only a temporary name for the file, used while your program is being
executed.  When the program is finished, the file is saved in your
directory, under another name.  Reasons for this system are:

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(1): You may want to execute the same program several times, and keep all
the output files; they need distinct names.

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(2): You may want to execute different programs, all of which call their
result files {\tt OUTPUT}, and keep all the output files; again, they need
distinct names.

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(3): The system for naming files varies from one computer to another.  The
Pascal standard can't accomodate all of them.  At Stanford LOTS, for example, 
an external file
name has two parts, separated by periods.

When you execute a Pascal program at LOTS, after translating the program
into machine language the executive program will ask 

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and wait for you to type the permanent name of your result file.  I
normally use the program name, followed by ``{\tt .OUT}''.






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\copyright 1984 Robert W. Floyd

First draft March 28, 1984

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