Subj : close file in REXX
To   : BRYAN RUBINGH
From : MIKE RUSKAI
Date : Sun Aug 20 2000 01:29 am

Some senseless babbling from Bryan Rubingh to Eddy Thilleman
on 08-15-00  00:00 about close file in REXX...

 -=> Quoting Eddy Thilleman to Bryan Rubingh <=-
 
 ET> The stream function is one way:
 
 ET> Another way is LINEOUT('anyfile') to close 'anyfile'.

 BR> Thanks much.  I didn't use stream to open it, I just used lineout, so
 BR> I think the lineout should be what I want to close it.

That doesn't make any sense.

You shouldn't count on lineout() with no data to close a file.

Just use stream() to close the file.  Using it to open the file is also a
good idea, so you can test whether or not the open was successful.  If you
rely on linein() to implicitly open the file, you won't know it failed,
except by the fact that no data was read.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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