From: eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: I/O and the LRM
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:30:39 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.92Dec17113039@oddjob.mitre.org> (raw)
In article <206@hathor.CSS.GOV> jeffe@hathor.CSS.GOV (Jeff Etrick) writes:
> I have used the function successfully many times to get the external
> name of a currently opened file but what I don't understand is the
> comment about it being used in an open statement. Why would I want to use
> this statement in an open since the file must already be opened or
> STATUS_ERROR will be raised.
Because you might want to close the file and open it again?
Actually this statement is more of a direction to the implementor
of TEXT_IO than to the user.
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Robert I. Eachus
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