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  PACKED <array type> │ <file type> │ <record type> │ <set type>
 
  Description
 
    The keyword PACKED forces some Pascal compilers to compress arrays,
    files, records, and sets. QuickPascal always packs these data
    structures. PACKED also serves to differentiate data types──that
    is, any type qualified with PACKED is not assignment-compatible
    with the same type not qualified with PACKED. However, a PACKED
    ARRAY OF Char is assignment-compatible with a string of the same
    declared length.