Good afternoon Gentlemen,
Please pardon my prolonged silence - I tried my best to test and understand your advice. If what follows is too "chatty", please scold me.
Remember when radio buttons were those buttons on the radio in Dad's motor car? You pushed them to select other stations or wavelengths. No?, that shows how old I am.
Gammatester, correct. I did not set up a console application because I stopped using Pascal when OOP started to became important. I did not even think about OOP. More a little later.
lucarnar, (am I correct?), thanks for the View. Debug.Terminal Output. It did not work at the start, but I tried a new progam containing all those thingamabobs in curly brackets {$mode objfpc} {H+}, etc. Then it did work. Now Gammatester and lucarnar how do I obtain a fulscreen console when I run my program? I also started a new project and received MyApplication from TMyApplication. and entered some code after the note {add your program here} in TMyApplication>DoRun. Is this correct? Where can I find more help and information on this?
Thaddy, thanks. The compiler did not want to know anything about {$apptype console} - it is not supported by the target OS (Fedora27 - is that what it meant?)
Thanks again gentlemen for your answers and advice. Please point me in the right direction. I will try my best.
Thank you.
James Gibbens