Hi, Paul.

PE> FM> AAMOI why do you get to "start" by reading bytes
rather than setting
PE> the
PE> FM> file pointer?

PE> I can't remember.  It may have been laziness, it may have been
PE> that that support was added after I had already written that
PE> bit (I think this was the case), I can't remember.

PE> FM? Does not C have that capability, or isn't it part of your
PE> FM> "standard"?

PE> It is part of the standard.  It could be done that way.

Good. But then I'm surprised that you didn't. In pseudocode...

set Start to the arg
if Start is less than 0 set it to 0
if Start is greater than the filesize set it to the filesize
seek to Start

Regards, FIM.

 * * I'm a hero with coward's legs.
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