Re: [fpc-pascal] About reset(aFile, FileNameString)

2005-09-13 Thread Lance Boyle
Thanks for the pointers 8^), y'all. Lance On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Adriaan van Os wrote: Lance Boyle wrote: "Official" Pascal for opening a file and associating a name with it (e.g., a disk file) goes like this: assign(aFile, FileNameString); reset(aFile); {or rewrite, etc.} Assi

Re: [fpc-pascal] About reset(aFile, FileNameString)

2005-09-13 Thread Adriaan van Os
Lance Boyle wrote: "Official" Pascal for opening a file and associating a name with it (e.g., a disk file) goes like this: assign(aFile, FileNameString); reset(aFile); {or rewrite, etc.} Assign is not "official" Pascal but a non-standard Turbo/Borland/Delphi Pascal extension. All of the P

re: [fpc-pascal] About reset(aFile, FileNameString)

2005-09-13 Thread David Emerson
I usually just make a wrapper function, and keep it in a utility unit with some other similarly useful stuff. Here's my code: type reset_or_rewrite_enum_type = (resetit, rewriteit); function open_file (var f : file; file_name : ansistring; whattodo : reset_or_rewrite_enum_type) : boolean;