VMS Help PASCAL, Data Types  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  Every piece of data that is created or manipulated by  a  Compaq
  Pascal  program  has  a data type.  The data type determines the
  range of values, set of valid operations,  and  maximum  storage
  allocation for each piece of data.

  Additional Information (explode) :

• Ordinal
• Real
• Pointer Types
• Structured Types
• Schema Types
• String Types
• Misc Types