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From: elmo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: more fun things to do with files
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Date: 17 Aug 90 04:16:06 GMT
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Reply-To: elmo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot)
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using a file of byte. I think this will work. On the other hand
I have a feeling the using APPEND rather than REWRITE maybe used
either with the file of BYTE solution or with the original file
structures. It would be necessary to check the size of the files
and make sure that the program doesn't get confused by the switch
of types. I bet you that it won't because APPEND should simply
involve moving the file pointer to the end of the file before
writing to it. Reading the stuff back in will definitely require
useing either the file of byte approach or the combined record
approach mentioned earlier, memory permitting. 
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