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In article <25734@wash.demon.co.uk>, John Washington
<john@wash.demon.co.uk> writes

>RC> that only works the same if you set has_newline = 1 before entering the
>
>Nonsense.
>        if (v1 != 0) v2 = 0; else v2 = 1;
>is equivalent to
>        v2 = !v1;

ah.. that's what you were on about. Next time please post diffs and
we'll understand faster which lines you were talking about. I thought
you were trying to fix the top of the loop.

>No 'only's or 'before's required.  If you find otherwise, return
>your compiler for a refund!  (I assume you don't need to go on
>a C training course).

probably I do, been writing C++ for so long I've almost forgotten what
works in C :)

>RC> crashes thereafter, and arrange that the user is unlikely to delete the
>RC> temp files before KA9Q (or something) has had a chance to continue with
>RC> the movement of the data to the final destination.
>
>Rather like batch.txt.  Users don't seem to go around
>deleting that, so I don't see why you might fear them
>deleting intermediate mail files.

del *.$$$  is quite a reasonable thing for users to do after a crash and
a quick SCANDISK.

>However, as Graham usefully pointed out, the temp file
>creation is done by a Borland library routine (I didn't
>know that).

it must surely be using the underlying DOS functionality. I doubt it is
doing very much for you.

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