fpc wont compile stuff

[solsyst]

On UBUNTU 15.04 and Lazarus 1.6.
So when I try to compile GET or PUT error message is: "Identifier not found". Well of course not. Thgese are FPC statements. So why does'nt FPC know them?

ALSO:
The lazarus 1.6 FPC will not compile the following simple program. FPC gets stuck on the VAR statement "Student: StudentRecord;".
The error is: "Typed files cannot contain reference-counted types" (????????)
This program was obtained from Tutorials Point FILE HANDLING web page who claims it creates a students.dat file.

Thanks for any help you can give.
solsyst

Still working on this as of 5/26/16. Trying it out on my old MT86 Pascal compiler.

program DataFiles;
type
StudentRecord = Record
s_name: String;
s_addr: String;
s_batchcode: String;
end;

var
Student: StudentRecord; <==== Here is the problem.
f: file of StudentRecord;

begin
assign(f, 'students.dat');
reset(f);
while not eof(f) do

begin
read(f,Student);
writeln('Name: ',Student.s_name);
writeln('Address: ',Student.s_addr);
writeln('Batch Code: ', Student.s_batchcode);
end;

close(f);
end.

[solsyst]

Loose the "String" type in type definition.
Replace it with Array of char, eg
TYPE
StudentRecord = Record
s_name: array [1..255] of char;
s_addr: array [1..255] of char;
s_batchcode: array [1..255] of char;
end;

[solsyst]

Thanks!
Works quite well.
Sooooo pleased to find helpful geeks out there.
CHEERS

[solsyst]

Still working on the missing GET/PUT instruction question. Have found a workaround to the missing PUT problem.

[solsyst]

So, the work around to the missing GET and PUT procedures in the Lazarus fpc compiler is nicely explained by the following statements from Wikipedia:

"Pascal files are sequences of components. Every file has a buffer variable which is denoted by f^. The procedures get (for reading) and put (for writing) move the buffer variable to the next element. Read is introduced such that read(f, x) is the same as x := f^; get(f);. Write is introduced such that write(f, x) is the same as f^ := x; put(f); The type text is predefined as file of char. While the buffer variable could be used for inspecting the next character to be used (check for a digit before reading an integer), this leads to serious problems with interactive programs in early implementations, but was solved later with the "lazy I/O" concept."

More on this later.

[solsyst]

On 5/26/16 used my old MT86 Pascal compiler on this simple create a file program. It runs under MS-DOS 3.3.
The program compiled and linked with no errors.
Next I'll try the FPC compiler using terminal commands.