El 21/02/2017 a las 22:12, James Richters escribió:
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> Thanks for any advice on this
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My first action would be to guarantee that the file is closed with a
try...finally.
AssignFile(BitFile,'BitSave.pax');
ReWrite(BitFile);
try
finally
CloseFile(BitFile);
end;
Second:
Do yo
Am 2017-02-21 um 22:12 schrieb James Richters:
> I have a freepascal Windows console application that I recently ported over
from DOS Turbo Pascal. I am have a small settings file that I write to disk that
keeps getting corrupted. It happens only occasionally, but it’s always this one
file,
Thanks for the advice on things to look at.
Here is some more information. First of all, this happens extremely rarely,
about once a month or two on a pc here and another there, but it’s odd that
it’s always this one file, and it should not be happening at all.I’m using
turbo pascal co
On 21/02/17 21:12, James Richters wrote:
> My understanding was the Close(file); would save the file all the way to
> disk and flush any buffers that were holding it,
I would try adding a Flush(File) before the Close, even though that
should not really be needed.
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Am 22.02.2017 13:12 schrieb "Jürgen Hestermann" :
> Also, I am not sure whether "Close" is equivalent to "CloseFile" and
"Assign" is equivalent to "AssignFile".
> I remenber that I had some issues using the old (TP7) notations but I am
don't remember the details.
They are the same. The ones withou
El 22/02/2017 a las 13:17, James Richters escribió:
> The error I get is when trying to open the file to read it. It’s
> something like read past end of file, because the corrupted file is
> just one long line, once I read that, the second read is past the end
> of file. I can do checking to get
Here is the procedure that reads the file. It is only read once when the
program is started, then written to when changes are made.
I don’t have a good reason for having a different file variable name in my read
procedure than my write procedure, but those are local varaibles to the
procedures
On 22/02/17 13:17, James Richters wrote:
No other programs on the system ever access this file
Not even virus scanners?
Jonas
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I suppose a virus scanner could access it, I didn't think of that. I guess
I should have said no other program intentionally access the file. It's
just a way for me to store some variables and get them back, it serves no
other purpose.
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On 22/02/17 21:00, James Richters wrote:
I suppose a virus scanner could access it, I didn't think of that. I guess
I should have said no other program intentionally access the file. It's
just a way for me to store some variables and get them back, it serves no
other purpose.
A virus scanne
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