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From: drg@briar.UUCP (Don Gentner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Relative file bugs!!!
Message-ID: <295@briar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 09:21:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: briar.295
Posted: Wed Aug  6 09:21:31 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 02:48:08 EDT
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Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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Summary: possible fix


In an article in RUN or Compute's Gazette a year or so ago (I could get
the reference if you're interested), it was claimed that some relative
file bugs could be avoided if you also positioned the pointer AFTER a
read or write.  I never checked this out myself, having memories of
earlier unhappy encounters with relative files.  It's amazing that such
a potentially useful feature was so badly done and documented.
				Don Gentner
				philabs!gentner