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Re: Stumped by open("PRN","w")

• Posted by cEnsE <cense at MAIL.RU> Jan 22, 2001
• 627 views

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jim wrote:
>> Hi,cEnsE,
>>
>> Thanks for trying to help. But, this is one of those very rare instances in
>> which I think  you may have missed the mark.
>>
>> The code in question
>>
>>                                         ThePrinter = open("PRN","w")
>>
>> has been pretty much copied directly from an example given in the Euphoria
>> documentation (see "open" in the docs).
>>
>> The only difference being that I named the receiving variable differently,
>> i.e., ThePrinter instead of Rob's file_num.
>>
>> I did, however, try open("LPT1","w")   and open("prn","w") and a few other
>> things before harrassing the list with my question.
>>
>> As I said, thanks for taking the time to try to help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jim

Am I really stupid and do not understand "open( )"? should it read:
 ThePrinter = open( PRN, "w" ) ? (note the no quotes). I think its just that
im stupid.

Is "PRN" a global variable or is it a special sequence? what if i wanted to
open a file called "PRN"?


>> cEnsE wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > What exactly is this "PRN" ? the way you have it coded, if im not mistaken,
>> > the open call will open a file in the current directory called PRN. I may
>> > very well be mistaked but from a quick look over this "PRN" stands out as a
>> > possible  source of your problem.
>> >
>> > I hope that helps, but if not, i tried.
>> >
>> > --
>> > evil, corruption and bad taste
>> > ^[cense]
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