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From: rio@tension.me.utoronto.ca (Oscar del Rio)
Subject: Re: more fun things to do with files
Message-ID: <90Aug17.135039edt.62@tension.me.utoronto.ca>
Summary: Correction about the use of APPEND
Organization: University of Toronto, Mechanical Engineering, Canada
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Date: 17 Aug 90 17:52:49 GMT

In article <8975@ur-cc.UUCP> elmo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot) writes:
>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....

Hey, don't forget that APPEND can only be used with TEXT files!
If you want to move the file pointer to the end of the file in
non-text files, you have to code it yourself with SEEK after opening
the file with RESET and checking the file size with FILESIZE.