Subj : how to To : Chris Hoppman From : mark lewis Date : Wed Jan 19 2005 04:00 pm TM>> if you open a dos window that's a consol. =] the online TM>> writeln is easy to understand because it's a simple TM>> function. =] what are you trying to do? CH> simple for you maybe. i tried it and it doesn't work. CH> uses wingui; CH> start CH> document.writeln("hello world"); CH> finish. what pascal are you attempting to use? i do not fully recognise the above... i do recognise part of it, though... by using the wingui unit, it would appear that you are trying to create a gui/graphical app rather than a console/textmode app as indicated by the document.writeln function... in the console/textmode apps that i've written, i've not used any blahgui units at all... in fact, i had to locate or create my own variation of the crt unit to port some of my stuff over... what a headache that was until i got a workable crt (actually crt32) unit going... anyway, with those gui units, you end up using other functions to put your text stuff to the gui box/pane that opens up... also, most all of your stuff is done in some type of form(s)... )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .