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From: krowitz@mit-richter.UUCP (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  TeX on Apollo - problems
Message-ID: <8802291925.AA28563@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Feb 88 18:49:11 GMT
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You have indeed run into a Pascal bug which was introduced at 
SR9.6 It showed up in a program of mine that was using temporary
pascal files (ie. I used the Pascal OPEN statement with a name
of '', so that the file would go away after it was closed.) The
problem went away when I started using real names for the files
and explicitly deleting them when I was done. Apollo replied to
my UCR and said that if I had been using something other than
status='unknown', that I would not have seen the problem. (ie. I
could have used file='' and status='old' and it would have
worked). I haven't checked this, since I had already developed
my own work around. Your OPEN statement will also have to specify
a maximum record size which is large enough to handle the longest
line in your file.


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