Jim Higgins wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:09:39 -0500, Joe <joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Jim Higgins wrote:
>>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:03:44 -0500, Joe <joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jochen wrote:
>>>>> hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> Joe typed:
>>>>>
>>>>>> assign(person, 'path\?');
>>>>>> rewrite(person);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> recnum:= filesize(person); // This all ways starts at 0. No matter
if
>>>>>> there is 1 record in it or not.
>>>>> there cannot be a record in it!
>>>>> rewrite creates a new empty file. so of course it has 0 records.
>>>>> please read the help about working with files: rewrite, reset,
append,
>>>>> filemode and so on i mean.
>>>>>
>>>>>> if (recnum = 0) then goto ?; //Then I miss the first record.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Does that help?
>>>>> greetz
>>>>> Jo
>>>>>
>>>> Then you must be talking about some thing else Jo. I don't why it
doing
>>>> it, Your right. When you rewrite a file. It's blank, Theres nothing
in
>>>> there, How ever. Every time I do add a record to it. The new
recordnum
>>>> IS 0. and always 0.
>>>>
>>>> And I don't have the doc's for Vpascal any way. I wish I didn't. Been
>>>> looking for them and I haven't fount them yet
>>>
>>> It strikes me the OP and several responders are not making the
>>> distinction between "record number" and "number of records."
>> Well let me see. I only been programing in pascal for about 2 weeks
Jim.
>> And some of the samples that I fount didn't use that option "filepos".
>> Oh, and the manual that I have only has 119 pages in it. So that option
>> isn't even listed in there. How ever I'm still looking for a manual
that
>> does.
>
> I wasn't criticizing you... and it's not really im****tant why you
> didn't know. What's im****tant is that you seem to be getting on the
> right track. If I'd seen the earlier posts I'd probably have been
> able to be more helpful.
>
> It's really too bad that if you're using Borland Pascal (this being
> c.l.p.b) that you don't have the manuals that came with it. There are
> something like 7 inches of them in 9 or so volumes. Not as good for
> the beginning programmer as much earlier versions by Borland, but
> very, very helpful.
I'm sorry too, I guess you took it the wrong way. All I'm saying that I
wish I had all the manuals. It would help a great deal. Its just that
I'm still having problems. If I still can't find out what it's not
working. I'll post it here. And Thanks for your help
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