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+{ Source provided for Free Pascal Bug Report 1401 }
+{ Submitted by "Bill" on  2001-02-10 }
+{ e-mail: lingolanguage@hotmail.com }
+
+(*
+Compiles using Delphi 4 (v12):
+  dcc32 fpc5
+Does not compile in FPC (1.0.4) using:
+  ppc386 -Sd fpc5
+*)
+
+program fpc10;
+
+{
+  uses sysutils,windows;
+}
+
+const BUFMAX = 10;
+      CHSIZE = 1;
+var fFile:file;
+    buffer:string[10];
+    uiNumread:cardinal;
+
+procedure test;
+begin
+  (* don't run this! *)
+  blockread (fFile, buffer, BUFMAX*CHSIZE, uiNumread);
+  blockread (fFile, buffer, cardinal(BUFMAX*CHSIZE), uiNumread);
+  blockwrite (fFile, buffer, BUFMAX*CHSIZE, uiNumread);
+  blockwrite (fFile, buffer, cardinal(BUFMAX*CHSIZE), uiNumread);
+end;
+
+begin
+  Writeln('Test for cardinal version of blockread/blockwrite');
+end.
+