On 3/5/23 12:54 PM, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
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This reminded me that I used to do this exact thing under turbo pascal by using
blockread/writes, and treating the text file as a binary one. This allowed me to
make changes without having to rewrite the whole file, something even
On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 7:02 PM Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
wrote:
> On tp, I could open a file with a blocksize of 1,
>
> reset(file1,1);
>
...
> For example.
>
> Let's say I have a 5 byte string:
>
> st1 := '12345';
>
> Now, if I blockwrite this to the file under tp:
>
> blockwrite(f1,st1);
;
Datum: 05.03.2023 19:02
Předmět: [fpc-pascal] possible bug in blockwrite
Comments?
I've built in workarounds in my program to solve both of these issues,
but it'd be nice if I didn't have to do that.
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I'm using FPC 3.2.0, though I doubt anything changed in the most recent
releases, though I'll try those if folks think it's worth doing so.
What I ran across yesterday while doing a search for other things was
some posts about updating a single line in a file using free pascal.
The solutions
