program BuildFile; var s: string[1]; fname: string[30]; strdata: string[100]; lines,fblk,i: integer; f: text; begin writeln; writeln('BLDTST - build ACORN test file'); writeln; s := ' '; strdata := 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'; write('Enter file name (not a .TEXT) : '); readln(fname); rewrite(f,fname); writeln('File open: ',fname); writeln; write('Enter number of blocks to build file : '); readln(fblk); {calc number of lines to write in file: line is 64 bytes.} {lines = total blks * (blocksize / line length) } lines := fblk * 8; writeln('Total number of lines: ',lines:1); writeln; write('Writing line...'); for i := 1 to lines do begin writeln(f,'LINE ',i:5,' ',strdata); write(i:5); {rotate characters through string} s[1] := strdata[1]; delete(strdata,1,1); strdata := concat( strdata, s ); if (i mod 16) = 0 then writeln; end; writeln; writeln('Closing file: ',fname); close(f,lock); writeln('Finished.'); end.