Problems with file-handling an new GPC Beta_(re)

Thu, 9 Oct 1997 00:33:11 +0200 (MEST)

According to Jesper Lund:
> 
> You need to close the file before calling reset.  If you add 
> 
>   close(f)
> 
> just before 
> 
>   reset(f)
> 
> your program works fine.  Whether this is a *feature* or a *bug* depends on
> the definitions of reset/rewrite in the (various) Pascal standard(s).  [...]

I agree.  However when we want to claim some compatibility to Borland Pascal,
GPC must also support this feature/bug.  So I must consider this failure a
bug in GPC.  Thanks, Christian, for finding it out!  :-)

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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