Hi Jurgen, > Although I don't see the purpose of the above code snippet there is a > difference between existing and non-existing file: > If dat exists (and can be opened without error) then the rewrite is not > done. So in this case dat is only opened for reading and existing data is > not deleted (yet).
That is correct, of course. But, take a look at his code, after reset (open read/write) he starts writing 112 records to the file. For the purpose of his program, the reset() is superfluous. Bart _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
