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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: VMS Pascal help needed
Message-ID: <4020001@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 17:21:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  8 17:21:31 1987
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/ jwabik@umnd-cs.UUCP (Jeff Wabik) /  4:05 pm  Feb  6, 1987 /
>
>	How to to RESET and REWRITE filenames stored
>	(for example) in a character array.  I.E.  Somehow
>	associating the "text" variable name with a 
>	filename in a character array.
>
>	Is the OPEN statement required?  
>
>	WHY oh.. WHY is VMS Pascal so bass ackwards?

I don't know what you are comparing it (VMS Pascal) with, but in every Pascal
I've seen, RESET and REWRITE took file *variables*, not file names, as
arguments.

The OPEN function is intended to do precisely what you want to do:  to
associate a file on disk that is identified by a file name (a character
string) with a file variable in the Pascal program.

What's your gripe?

Jacob Gore
Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab
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