On 03 May 2007, at 12:44, Sven E Olsson wrote: > Thanks for your reply! > > As you know I am not a low level programmer, only a RB user... > So then is there some that know if the "nil" doing the same thing > that close should do? > Is the flag on the file changed to "not locked or not in use" ? > > Here it is, not verified yet.. > http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=kluojbyk
There is that report It's not quite the same (although should be a bug as well) I'm honestly not sure that the close issue has been reported or not It came up as a result of discussing this bug report <http:// www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=xltobpqb> Eventually Charles and Joe both advocated using the set to nil (stream = nil) as it did what most people assumed close was doing anyways and did force any data to be flushed to disk. As for whether the OS level flag that a file is in use is set one way or the other I don't know a I'm not sure which API REAL is using I'd test it and see _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
