Closing a file

17 Apr 2004

      Hello,

Is there anything special that I need to do to commit a file
to disk after I have written to it?  My old Pascal book says
to use...

CLOSE(FILEHANDLE,LOCK);

        ...which gpc complains about.  I have tried...

CLOSE(FILEHANDLE);

       ...which compiles okay, but doesn't seem to commit the
data (I wind up with a zero-length file.

I've tried including the filename in the program parameters,
which is suggested by the book, but gpc didn't seem to like
that either.

I'm also not sure whether I need to pass the file handle as
a parameter to the procedure that's doing the writing, or
how I would do that (I did try, but without success).

This is my first Pascal program...
http://grex.cyberspace.org/~ball/test5.pas

- Andy.

Andy Ball

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