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From: eallen@mercury.sybase.com (Ed Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Checking for open files
Message-ID: <12814@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 19:42:29 GMT
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If I have HyperCard writing to text files using open file, write file,
close file commands, etc. is there a way to check and see if a file is
currently open?  I'd like to be able to issue a close file command
conditionally only if the file is still open in one particular case, in
another, I want to write conditionally.  This is in a stack for testing
XCMDs, so I can't depend on all scripts executing and updating globals
correctly to keep track myself of what the status is.

Ed Allen  eallen@sybase.com

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