Free Pascal Reference guide 16.1 Programs

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16.1  Programs
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The program header is provided for backwards compatibility, and is ignored by the compiler.

This is evidently not so, as for example {$R *.res} takes the file name from the program identifier.

According to @PascalDragon in the forum the intended meaning was that the program header was optional, not requires, could be entirely omitted.