Probably a left over. Way back in early Microdata. You could only open
one file at a time. There was no TO clause. You had the file opened.
If you wanted to access another file, you had to close the current one
and open the next.
Kevin used Dartmouth as his base, so think pre-Micro$oft.
Roger
Mark Johnson wrote:
Is this CLOSE thing a new thing. Haven't seen or heard of it in a quarter of
a century. I know it's in MS Basic(s).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Kibbey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements
That programmer was probably squaked at for not closing a file or two.
Then he/she found a way to insure that would be caught next time by
the compiler.
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