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  I am currently writing a file sort in TC++ 3.0 that will sort a file with an
unknown number of entries (in the range of 600 to 80,000).  I am reading the
entries until memory if full, sorting them, writing them to a temp file,
reading in the next batch of entries from the file, sorting them in memory, and
then merging them with the temp file into temp2.  Then I use SYSTEM() to rename
temp2 to temp and continue on reading, sorting, and merging until I get an end
of file from the input file.  The problem I face is that the SYSTEM() seems to
be resetting the file pointer to my input file (which I leave open until
finished) back to the beginning of the file.  Could someone please let me know
if I am just missing something painfully obvious and stupid or does the
SYSTEM() function close all open files when it executes (None of these
supposedly large bookstore chains carry a TC++ Bible).  If SYSTEM() closes all
open files then using FSEEK() and FREAD() seem to be the next choice for input
rather than FGETS().  Thanks in advance for any and all help.  And as a side
note, this isn't for a school project.

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