From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-10-30T17:34:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with seeking in existing files.

Hi,

In message "Problem with seeking in existing files."
    on 03/10/30, agemoagemo@yahoo.com <agemoagemo@yahoo.com> writes:

|I'm trying to write a program that will be writing
|data to an existing file, that will not necessarily be
|done in the physical file order. I used mode 'ab+' to
|open the file, as only the 'a' modes allow writing
|without changing the existing file. I am using sysread
|and syswrite to work with the file.

I don't know what platform you are working on.  But in general, stdio
does not work well with "a" (append) mode and seeking.  It's stdio
restriction.

							matz.