Subj : Re: a problem
To   : Thomas W. Mueller
From : Scott Adams
Date : Sat Jun 02 2001 03:54 pm

 -=> Quoting Thomas W. Mueller to Scott Adams <=-

 NM>>   assign(a,'telefoni.dat');
 NM>>   reset(a);
 NM>>          write(a,novi);
 NM>>   close(a);
 TWM>> The above ist basically what you are doing. You open a file for
 TWM>> reading and then try to write to it. Unless you set the file
 TWM>> access to readwrite this will not work. Unfortunately I don't
 TWM>> quite recall how to do that. I think there is a variable
 TWM>> somewhere that you must set: FileMode It should be described in
 TWM>> the online help.
 SA>        Would use Rewrite() rather than Reset()
 TWM> Maybe I should not have cut out so much of the original code. He was
 TWM> first reading from the file and then writing back to it. In order to
 TWM> open a file in read/write mode, you must use Reset, not Rewrite.
 TWM> Rewrite would truncate the existing file, deleting all the data in it. 

        Yep.  I wasn't sure if he wanted it appended or new file.
        I've actually never touched the fileMode stuff except
        I think once in 18+ years doing pascal...that was for
        a bbs util I think that required it.  Course back in
        pascal 3 you had to use it alot...


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