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From: bobd@dshovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: VMS Pascal help needed
Message-ID: <536@dshovax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 15:39:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 17 15:39:02 1987
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Reply-To: bobd@dshovax.UUCP (Bob Dietrich)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
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In article <382@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.UUCP> jwabik@umnd-cs.UUCP (Jeff Wabik) writes:
>
>Help!
>
>I've misplaced (allright.. I lost) our VMS "Programmers" Pascal manual, 
>and now am having some headaches trying to do file manipulations.  
>
>Can anyone explain the following to me:
>
>
>	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.
>
Use open to associate a file name in a string with an external file.

>	Is the OPEN statement required?  
>
Yes, for what you want to do and various other things. I can't explain them
all (you'd better get another manual), but for associating a name with a
file:

	open( f, fname);
	reset( f);	{ or rewrite(f) }

or you can use the form:

	open( f, filename := fname);


>	WHY oh.. WHY is VMS Pascal so bass ackwards?
>
Compared to what? Not that I'm a rabid fan, but I have used VMS Pascal to do
systems programming without any major problems. At least they didn't pervert
reset and rewrite, which is truly bass ackwards. Note that the draft proposed
Extended Pascal does things this way, although (for good reasons I won't get
into here) the procedure is called "bind".

>
>Thanks in advance ..  
>
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				Bob Dietrich
				Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon
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