Re: [lbpp-devel] Problems with LOF and INPUT$

[Anthony L. <aj...@be...>]

Michael Rankin wrote:

> When I print LOF it shows the byte size as 0.
>
> Open "fialdialog.bas" for input as #test
> Print LOF(#test)
> Close #test
> End

Alas, LOF does not work yet ;-)  This is due to the fact that I have to
see if Windows supports fstat (which I think it doesn't).  The
architecture is there atleast.  basic_io.c has a function called
something like lb_file_lof that actually takes a FILE *f so it would be
ridiculusly easy to support it.

I'm just trying to keep from having to have seperate versions of
basic_io.c for different platforms ;-)

> I don't believe INPUT$ is working either
>
> Open "fialdialog.bas" for input as #test
>
> For x = 1 to 10
>    Print INPUT$(#test, 1);
> Next x
>
> Close #test
> End
>
> It should print out the first 10 characters, but it prints nothing.
> If I remove the ";" it will print 10 blank lines.

Yeah, this function was just stubbed out :(  I actually support it prior
to the device architecture implementation and then never went back and
fixed it :(  It's fixed now though and will be in the next release.

Removing the ; will print newlines because the absence of a ; will send
a new line to the file.  This should be similiar to how LB works.

Regards,
Anthony