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- From: glb2h@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Bullock)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Updating
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.002735.10430@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:27:35 GMT
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- In article <1715upINN1as@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- >sjmadsen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Steve Madsen) writes:
- >
- >>> Wouldn't Seek(EOF) work just as well, and read more clearly?
- >> EOF returns a boolean value, so I'd say no...
- >
- >I was CLOSE! What I meant to say was: "SeekEOF(F)" -- but that only
- >works on files of type TEXT, not files of {type}...
- >
-
- Besides, SeekEOF(F) doesn't do what the original poster wishes. It
- will "skip over" *only* carriage returns & line feeds before returning
- a Boolean indicating whether the EOF has been reached.
-
- Keep trying, Rich :-)
-
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- Regards,
- Greg Bullock "...just as soon as I get this program running."
- glb2h@Virginia.edu
- Physics Dept./Univ. of Virginia
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