[REBOL] Re: SKIPping in a file
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 9-Jul-2001 14:59
Hi, Gabriele,
Gabriele Santilli wrote:
> SKIP has always been broken on /DIRECT ports AFAIK (at least, I
> was never able to make it work). The workaround is using
> COPY/PART.
>
> readtail: func [fn [file!] n [integer!]] [
> fn: open/binary/direct fn
> copy/part fn fn/size - n
> first reduce [copy/part fn n close fn]
> ]
>
> (NOT TESTED)
>
Well, it is now! (at least partially :) A quick check against
my test files showed the expected result. Of course, it actually
has to read through the part to be skipped, instead of just
repositioning past it, which has a noticeable effect after a few
megabytes...
> OPEN/SKIP also seems to give problems, on files at least...
>
..
> I'd like to know, too...
>
Thanks for the confirmation, and for the work-around!
<sigh> I was really hoping you'd tell me that I hadn't read
the the User Guide properly, and then send me a one-line
correction to my broken script! ;-) </sigh>
-jn-
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