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 In> I'm writing to existing binary files

 In> TP5.0 will not allow conversion from array to array which is
 In> what I was trying to do.

 In> s: array[1..20] of string;
 In> c: array[1..20] of char;

 In> for i:=1 to 20 do
 In> begin
 In> c[i]:=s[i];
 In> end;

 In> Results in an ERROR 26 -(incompatible data types??)

You're trying to assign a string to a char element here, since s[i] is a
string element of array s. Try:

    c[i] := s[x][i];

where x is the current element of array s.

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