Greetings Erich,
Erich Steinböck wrote:
but then: we also have this rexxref paragraph "The write pointer cannot be moved
anywhere within the extent of the file as it existed when the file was opened."
So many errors in one place?
Thus my question: anyone remembers what the intention of all this was?
I believe opening a file in "append" mode is special in that it protects the file content already on disk with a sort of virtual partition. That pre-existing part you may read, just not make changes
to. Anything appended to the file while the file is open in append mode is far game for write/read/remove. The program is free to move around within the file reading... just the virtual partition
comes firmly into place for write/delete operations.
I do not know history on this "append" mode topic.
I think it is a solid functionality to maintain in the ooRexx language. Is it
causing you some sort of technical issues?
I am thankful,
--
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
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