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Subject: Re: [9fans] seeking for the truth
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:05:48 +0000
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i ought to have pointed out that in some applications the
pointer needs to be restored after the seek(,2) test; i knew that
at the time, but it made the general case a bit less pretty!
tail does more messing about than i remembered.