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Re: Parallel reading of a single file...help

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From: Andreas Borchert
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:55
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In article <9210141424.AA16896@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu>, garlock@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (erin jon garlock) writes:
> 
> Is there anyway I can parallel read a single file.  What I see is something
> like the following:
> 
> VAR
>     afile, bfile: FILE;
> . 
> . 
> Open(afile, 'generic',textMode,readOnly,ok);
> bfile := afile;
> ReadString(afile,string,ok);
> ReadLn(afile,ok);
> 
> Am I right to assume that afile is now on the second line of 'generic' and
> bfile is still at the current first line??

I don't know which library you are using but if FILE is a pointer type,
bfile is just another name for afile, so bfile would access the second line
next.

> If this incorrect, how can I do this...

Usually, it should be possible to open a file twice (at least if
both file openings are done read-only).

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Andreas Borchert, University of Ulm, SAI, D-W-7900 Ulm, Germany
Internet: borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de
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