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From: defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Text Files, I/O Redirection
Message-ID: <45670017@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 21 May 91 17:44:07 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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I have been having three problems lately in TP:

	1) How do you perform I/O redirection using  Exec?  I remember this
	   being discussed  and had thought  that  my home-brewed shell did
	   this properly  then  found out it doesn't and   the  posting has
	   since timed out.   I thought that  I needed to  Exec Command.Com
	   and specify the ">" or "|" options  in the Options parameter but
	   this not working.

	2) How do you get the name  of an open text file  from AFile : Text
	   variable?

	3) The  FileSize function  doesn't work on  Text files.  How  can I
	   easily and  efficiently  get the FileSize  (in bytes) of  a Text
	   file? 

Thanks