[Coco] basic09 - append to file

[Bob Devries]

Willard,
I'm fairly sure that the value you use as a parameter for SEEK should be 
INTEGER, not REAL.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] basic09 - append to file


> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 04:13:08PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> Maybe I'm missing it.. is there an easy way to append to a file (like
>> a log file) in basic09?  all the print,write,put statements seem to
>> write at the current file pointer which is 0 on open.  any trick or
>> simple way to seek to the end?
>
> It looks like the easiest way is to do a SYSCALL with GETSTA SS.SIZ,
> convert the result to a real, and SEEK to that.
>
> Willard
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