From: agemoagemo@...
Date: 2003-10-31T00:46:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with seeking in existing files.


--- Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 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.

Win32.

What IO commands should be used with append mode?

-Morgan.

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