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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: 18 Aug 90 07:10:28 GMT
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In article <90Aug17.135039edt.62@tension.me.utoronto.ca> rio@tension.me.utoronto.ca (Oscar del Rio) writes:
>In article <8975@ur-cc.UUCP> elmo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot) writes:
>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.

 Whoops! I did forget. You're right. Sorry about that folks.
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