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- From: tomc@siesoft.co.uk (Tom Crossland)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: RO/WO Files
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.181725.26713@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:17:25 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.153428.13654@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- chris@castlab.engr.wisc.edu (Christian Rohrmeier) writes:
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- : Since I'm using a text file I can't use any of the seek functions, so I
- : got and read the file character by character and then look at where I
- : am, which i can't do when i want rite to the file since it become read-only!
- :
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- In some you can do seek(filehanlde,maxlongint), which works well
- in THINK Pascal (Mac). I dunno about TP or whatever though.
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