Hello Mike,

03 Oct 99 17:23, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to EDDY THILLEMAN:

MR> the read/write pointer is at the end.  The lines() function returns 1
MR> if there's at least one line-end in the file (with the lines() method
MR> of the stream class in OREXX, it actually counts the lines in the
MR> file). The chars() function returns the character count remaining
MR> ahead of the read/write pointer.

Thanks for the explanation.

OK, I choose Lines() because I read whole lines at a time.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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