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to: Bill Hemenway
from: Jeff Patten
date: 1995-01-15 11:22:40
subject: Help

BH> problem, I want to add lines of text to the end of a file
 BH> but it keeps over writing what's already in the file. I'm
 BH> using this to set the read write pointer:

 BH> CALL STREAM 'F:\VXREXX\TEST.TXT','C','SEEK <0'

   According to the online REXX Reference, the default initial write
position for LINEOUT is the end of the file, so you don't need to do a seek
if you are only going to append to the file.

Jeff

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