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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: file not found error
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.134412.12628@uwasa.fi>
Date: 15 Feb 91 13:44:12 GMT
References: <jed1.666500501@ra>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <jed1.666500501@ra> jed1@ra.MsState.Edu (Joseph E. Dunston) writes:
>I have a strange problem with tp 6.0 , here is a piece of code:
>
>Reset (datafile1);
>Rewrite(datafile2);
>
>While not eof(datafile1) do
>   While not eoln(datafile2) do
>     begin
>       ........
>
>We gat a file not found error if the code is left as stands.  If we comment
>out the not in both of the while statements, no error.  
>What gives ???????

Well, aren't eof and eoln true by default whenever we are not
specifically in the middle of an _existing_ file or a line.  And
have you first checked for the existence of datefile1.  And why an
eoln in the context of a file that is being written to? I don't
quite see the logic.  What kind of files are these supposed to be?
Text probably?  You may find your answer by considering these
points and questions. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        
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