On 1/19/06, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 20/1/06 8:42 AM, "Josh Lezniak" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > -- But opening the file, writing to it and setting eof doesn't
> > set wf_eof to number of characters in wf_content
> > set wf_file to open for access wf_path with write permission
> > write wf_content to wf_file
> > set eof wf_file to wf_eof
> > close access wf_file
> >
> >
> > The problem is that the file that I open and write to (wf_file) only contain
> > about 50% of the data that I actually write to it.
>
> I suspect wf_content is Unicode text, whereas it was a string 10.3 (the
> rules changed). The number of characters might be x, but when written as
> Unicode text it's going to take roughly x*2 bytes.
>
> But I'm baffled at why you're using "set eof" in the first place -- why?
>
Perhaps he is overwriting a file.
The EOF doesn't get set backwards only forwards in a write.
-Mark
Time to go home.
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