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From: amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (alan mead)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: TURBO PASCAL: fancy file handling, please
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.231235.2861@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 23:12:35 GMT
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I have an application written in TPv5.0 that needs several files.  I am
loath to increase their number.

I already store one complex data type in a FILE OF COMPLEXREC; and now
need to store another.  I would prefer to store both in a single file.
The data types are of different sizes, and I need to store 4-6 of the
first kind for each of the second type.

Is there a relatively simple way to treat a single file as a number of
concatenated files (of differing format)?  I wouldn't mind rewriting
the Seek() routine if I could do it in TP (rather then assembly).

Thanks much.

-alan mead : amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu