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From: tad@pyr.gatech.EDU (Tad K. Mannes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Summary of Languages supporting Random File I/O (as promised)
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Date: 29 Jan 88 07:31:12 GMT
Organization: Office of Computing Services, Georgia Tech
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I posted a query for languages which support random file i/o for the Amiga.
I appears that Basic, Pascal, Modula-2 and C and any other language which
provides access to AmigaDos support random file i/o.  I received the following
replies:

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	I know that both Pascal and C do, and if Modula-2 is a high-level
language like I think it is (I have never used it before), then it
should have random access file I/O as well.
						-- Glenn Lewis
glewis@cit-vax.caltech.edu
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Randome file I/O can be done with any language that provides access to
AmigaDOS routines, which means just about everything.
David.
	Somewhat of a silly question.  The answer is yes to everything but
pascal, which is a probable yes.  
					-Matt
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C has what you want, and it is part of what is known as the "standard I/O"
package (which means it is completely portable).

I have a suspicition that any language above the level of Basic will provide
what you need, because ultimately they all look like C to the operating system.

In C, 'fseek' moves the file pointer to an exact byte in the file as counted
from the beginning of the file. (The file is viewed as a magtape, even if it is
on disk - fseek does a "magtape seek".)

I suspect there are synonyms for 'fseek' in the other languages you mentioned.
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