[Coco] basic09 - append to file

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 07:30:02 pm Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Willard,
> > I'm fairly sure that the value you use as a parameter for SEEK should
> > be INTEGER, not REAL.
> 
> You'd think so, but basic09 manual says seek wants a real.  maybe
> because b09 ints aren't big enough?
 
That is why I wouldn't use the basic09 seek function. I'd have to think the 
4 bytes in two 16 bit int sized registers of the syscall stack image has 
got to be faster.  You are several layers of code closer to the hardware 
that way.

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