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Date: 17 Dec 92 16:30:39 GMT
From: eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa  (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: I/O and the LRM
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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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