Subj : Re: Coding question
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Nov 11 2018 21:04:05

  Re: Re: Coding question
  By: MRO to Nelgin on Sun Nov 11 2018 10:31 pm

 >   Re: Re: Coding question
 >   By: Nelgin to MRO on Sun Nov 11 2018 06:15 pm
 >
 >  > MRO wrote:
 >  > M>   Re: Coding question
 >  > M>   By: Plt to All on Sat Nov 10 2018 11:33 pm
 >
 >  >  >>   Re: Coding question
 >  >  >>   By: Plt to All on Sat Nov 10 2018 23:06:57
 >
 >  >  >>  > I was looking at some code and I am trying to figure out what does
 >  > the
 >  >  >>  > 770
 >
 >  >  >> I found the answer to my question.
 >
 >
 >
 >  > M> unbaja creates random  designations for stuff that is lost when it
 >  > M> decompiles.
 >  > M> atleast i think that's why.
 >
 >  > M> so if i had a variable that was named BUTT, when decompiled it would
 >  > M> give it another designation
 >  > M> ---
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 >
 >  > Probably more to do with the mode the file is created with. 770 = rwx to
 >  > both owner and group and no permissions to other.
 >
 >
 > well it's an undocumented feature then.
 >
 > *FOPEN <int_var> <#>    <"str" or str_var>                      FILE_IO.INC
 >  args: handle    access  path_and_filename
 > *------------------------------------------
 > This function opens or creates a disk file (path_and_filename) for read
 > and/or write access. This function is the Baja equivalent of the standard C
 > fopen() function. No file I/O operations can be performed on a file until it
 > has been opened with this function. The 'handle' argument must be a defined
 > integer variable name. The 'access' argument is the requested open access.
 > The access flags (defined in FILE_IO.INC) are:
 >
 > Access Flag     Description
 > ~~~~~~~~~~~     ~~~~~~~~~~~
 > O_RDONLY        Read Only
 > O_WRONLY        Write Only
 > O_RDWR          Read and write
 > O_CREAT         Create    (create if doesn't exist)
 > O_APPEND        Append    (writes to end of file)
 > O_TRUNC         Truncate  (truncates file to 0 bytes automatically)
 > O_EXCL          Exclusive (only open/create if file doesn't exist)
 > O_DENYNONE      Deny None (shareable, for use with record locking)

It's the integer value of the programmer's specified file access. i.e. 770 is
the combintaino of some of the O_* flags. It's documented.

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