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echo: os2prog
to: Jeff Patten
from: Bill Hemenway
date: 1995-01-19 04:56:32
subject: Help

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

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

 JP> Jeff

I know that I read it in a book but when I got to write
to a file without seek it acts funny and overwrites some
of what's already in the file?

Bill


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