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- From: sjmadsen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Steve Madsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Updating
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.122955.12207@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 07:29:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: miavx1.1992Aug21.122955.12207
- References: <1992Aug19.041343.23349@Armstrong.EDU> <19AUG92.06011743@skyfox.usask.ca> <1715upINN1as@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Organization: Miami of Ohio
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- >>> 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}...
-
- I just looked up in my manual, and to my surprise there is indeed a
- SeekEOF function. That's neat.. I didn't know it existed.
-
- Guess you learn something everyday. But you're right, it only works on
- text files. Why, I have no idea. Most files do have an EOF, so it seems
- reasonable that it would be able to go the end of those as well. Case of lazy
- library programmer?
-
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- Steve Madsen
- Miami University Oxford, OH
- Internet: sjmadsen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
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