Some senseless babbling from David Noon to Mike Ruskai
on 10-09-99  00:39 about hstart wget?...

 DN> In a message dated 10-03-99, Mike Ruskai said to Eddy Thilleman about
 DN> "hstart wget?"

 DN> Hi Mike,
 
 ET>> do while stream( InFile, 'state' ) = 'READY'
 
 MR> lines() or chars() would be better here.
 
 ET> why?
 
 MR>Because I don't see why a stream would fail to be ready simply because
 MR>the read/write pointer is at the end.

 DN> Well, it returns 'NOTREADY' when it hits end-of-file for the first
 DN> time, and 'ERROR' for subsequent reads. [Assuming it was opened for
 DN> read access.] 

I guess that'd work.  But if it's opened for read/write access, it
certainly wouldn't.  That's probably why I got in the habit of using
lines() or chars() early on.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... And then Lancelot, Sir Robin and I will jump out of the rabbit... uhhh

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