Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual (G06.25+)

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POSITIONEDIT Procedure

Summary

Syntax for C Programmers

Syntax for TAL Programmers

Parameters

Example

Related Programming Manual

Summary

The POSITIONEDIT procedure sets the next record number to a specified value for a

specified file.

POSITIONEDIT is an IOEdit procedure and can only be used with files that have been

opened by OPENEDIT or OPENEDIT_.

Syntax for C Programmers

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CEXTDECS (through the included file TNSINTH) defines 32-bit values as the

typedef __int32_t which for TNS and TNS/R compiles is defined as long and for

TNS/E compiles is defined as

int.

Syntax for TAL Programmers

Parameters

error returned value

INT

returns a file-system error number indicating the outcome of the operation.

filenum input

INT:value

specifies the file number of the open file for which the next record number is to be

set.

#include <cextdecs(POSITIONEDIT)>

short POSITIONEDIT ( short filenum

,__int32_t record-number );

error := POSITIONEDIT ( filenum ! i

,record-number ); ! i