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Subject: for us beginners?  Help
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Date: 13 Jan 90 02:59:30 GMT
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 Date: 01-11-90 (23:31)              Number: 1553
   To: C.WEIMANN1 [KONG]             Refer#: 1550
 From: BILL MCCARTHY                   Read: NO
 Subj: FOR US BEGINNERS?  HELP       Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 HOPEN resets R/W-MODE back to it's default value.  So, the first
 time you run your program the file is in READ-WRITE mode (as set
 in FIO.SEQ) and works fine.  However in subsequent runs, you
 probably open the file in READ-ONLY mode (which is the FPC
 default as shipped), then your program fails when it tries to
 write to the file.

 One solution is to place a READ-WRITE or a WRITE-ONLY before the
 HOPEN.  Another is set up your system to default to READ-WRITE
 mode and forget about the modes:

     READ-WRITE   R/W-MODE =: R/W-DMODE   SAVE-EXE

 BTW Kong, your stack diagram for BLANKREC is incorrect since
 HCLOSE returns a flag.
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