Detecting End-of-File using READLINE command

Tue Sep 14 08:29:21 PDT 2004

<top-posted>
Ahhh! Now, this is much better... nearly perfect in fact... if only you had
interspersed your anser, or at worst case put it at the very end of the
message thread... it would be perfect. Top posting like I am doing now is,
of course, as you know a no-no.
Good luck, hope you can keep it this way... I, too like editing in Word, but
the problems it presents make it a bad choice for *this* list...
Thanks,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Simon [mailto:george at worldest.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:07 AM
> To: john at valar.com; George Simon
> Cc: filePro mailing list
> Subject: RE: Detecting End-of-File using READLINE command
>
>
> OK, now I'm replying to your message using Outlook as the email editor
> instead of Word.  As you can see, the text of your last post is
> quoted with
> ">"
>
> George Simon
> American River Logistics, LTD
> 614 Progress St.
> Elizabeth, NJ 07201
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of John Esak
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:23 AM
> > To: George Simon
> > Cc: filePro mailing list
> > Subject: RE: Detecting End-of-File using READLINE command
> >
> >
> > George.
> > Hi. Okay, I'll really try and work this out with you... but we
> have to get
> > to square one first... The message you posted below looks fine,
> > yes. But 99%
> > of all your other messages do NOT. You say you have no trouble
> > quoting HTML,
> > but you most certainly do.
> >
> > Maybe you should read some of the messages you post here. The one
> > I replied
> > to in particular (the first time I mentioned this in this
> thread that is)
> > did NOT have any >'s... none.  What it had was a long vertical
> > line down the
> > page next to the message you "thought" you were quoting. It does
> > NOT show up
> > in any of our mail clients a >'s... Now, when our mail clients
> > try to reply
> > to you and quote that sort of stupid looking long vertical
> > line... all they
> > do is indent it and start out "our" typing with a long vertical
> > line next to
> > it as well.  It is all VERY frustrating, so we "convert" your
> messages to
> > plain text which removes the ling vertical lines... but this
> > conversion can
> > only be done after we have hit the (R)eply button... so,
> therefore, we hae
> > NOT put any >'s next to what has just been converted. ... and
> we certainly
> > aren't going to add these one at a time.
> >
> > Before I can help any further with this... I have to believe that you
> > understand you are presenting with a problem... rather than
> > denial, thinking
> > that there is nothing wrong.
> >
> > So, let me know if you now understand the problem? All the time
> you think
> > you are "quoting" with >'s you are putting long
> "impossible-to-deal-wtih"
> > vertical lines.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: George Simon [mailto:flowersoft at compuserve.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 11:51 PM
> > > To: john at valar.com; filePro mailing list
> > > Subject: Re: Detecting End-of-File using READLINE command
> > >
> > >
> > > The reason it was indented is because I was using Word as the
> > email editor
> > > in that computer and Word cannot quote (>), so it indents instead.
> > > On this computer, I'm not using Word as the email editor and
> the quoting
> > > looks fine to me.
> > > My question was how come people claim to have problems quoting html
> > > messages, when I do not.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
> > > To: "filePro mailing list" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:19 PM
> > > Subject: FW: Detecting End-of-File using READLINE command
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > George,
> > > >
> > > > You just made my point SO clearly... Not only did you NOT quote his
> > > > message... not even close... all you did was indent it...
> > but, you then
> > > > through this giant image as well into the mix.
> > > >
> > > > Believe me, you are not going to make any friend on this list
> > > that way...
> > > > also, most people will not even bother sending you a response.
> > > Why is it
> > > so
> > > > hard to understand that most people on this list prefer to see
> > > messages in
> > > > plain text and accommodate them?  The mechinism exists in
> > > Outlook to mark
> > > a
> > > > particular recipient as one that gets "plain text" only. So, it
> > > certainly
> > > > wouldn't be hard to do.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, just will keep top-posting to messages that can NOT
> > be quoted...
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, but at least I'm not so ademant about plain text that I
> > > won't even
> > > > resond. You can keep using it... but you certainly will be pissing
> > > everyone
> > > > off on this list... and too be honest, I would have to
> agree that they
> > > (the
> > > > big "they" out there) have asked several, maybe 20 or 30 times
> > > that people
> > > > only use plain text here.
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > > P.S. - I have converted your response below to show you
> > exactly what is
> > > > meant by plain text... Compare it with your offering... :-)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > > > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
> > > George Simon
> > > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 4:52 PM
> > > > To: John Hemmer; filePro mailing list
> > > > Subject: RE: Detecting End-of-File using READLINE command
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm. I don't have a problem quoting his message.
> > > >
> > > > George Simon (IT Department)
> > > > American River Logistics, LTD
> > > > 614 Progress St.
> > > > Elizabeth, NJ  07205
> > > > Phone:(908)354-7746      Fax:(908)354-7491
> > > > mailto:george at worldest.com
> > > > http://www.americanriverintl.com/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > > > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
> > > John Hemmer
> > > > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:08 PM
> > > > To: filePro mailing list
> > > > Subject: Detecting End-of-File using READLINE command
> > > >
> > > > When using the READLINE command to read sequential records
> > > > e.g.
> > > >
> > > >     bytes=READLINE(handle,destination,length)
> > > >
> > > > When a line consists of just a newline character, the number of
> > > > bytes read and returned in "bytes" may be zero. However, there
> > > > could be many records that follow this line.
> > > >
> > > > How can I detect the EOF, End-of-File?  Is a negative number
> > > > of bytes returned?
> > > >
> > > > None of the Documentation I have, STN Manual, Online FilePro
> > > > help, etc,  answers these questions.
> > > >
> > > > TIAA
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > >
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