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From: john@nospam.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: File Position
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:09:08 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 10:00:33 -0500, "Steve Trenthem"
<Trenthem@watervalley.net> wrote:

>Is there an easy way to set the position in a file, like "fseek" in C?

Depends on what IO type you're using for the file. For Direct IO you
can use Set_Index. See:

http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-A-8-4.html

and

http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-A-8-5.html

John

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John McCabe

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