Switching off the machine seems a little extreme to me! :) On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Martin Peach <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-02-27 20:51, David wrote: >> >> Thanks for your help. It took me a while to figure out how 'list >> append' works, but I finally managed to get it working. I've attached >> the patch (intended to be used as an abstraction, invoked from another >> patch, which returns the data read from the file in a list). >> >> I have another question, though. How do the files get closed? When you >> exit PureData? Does that mean that every time you open a file, another >> system file handle is used and not released until you exit PureData? >> Or is there some way to explicitly close the file and release the file >> handle, buffers, etc.? > > > Actually read or write messages close the file right away, the buffer > remains at least big enough to fit the largest file read or constructed in > the buffer. If you want to clear the space you could read a zero-length file > into the buffer, or delete the [binfile], or close the patch, or exit Pd, or > switch off the machine... > > Martin > >
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