From rossini@u.washington.edu  Tue Nov 27 17:24:57 2001
From: rossini@u.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini)
Date: 27 Nov 2001 09:24:57 -0800
Subject: [Rd] seek helppage.  Possible clarification?
Message-ID: <87zo58dt3q.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>


seek(zz,where=NewPosition)   returns the OldPosition of connection zz
(of the appropriate "pointer", i.e. read or write).  Currently, the
docs have:

> Details:
> 
>     `seek' with `where = NA' returns the current byte offset of a
>     connection (from the beginning), and with a positive `where'
>     argument the connection is re-positioned (if possible) to the
>     specified position.


One possible change would be to:


> Details:
>
>     `seek' with `where = NA' returns the current byte offset of a
>     connection (from the beginning), and with a positive `where'
>     argument the connection is re-positioned (if possible) to the
>     specified position, returning the previous position.

(since seek() seems to return "current/previous position", at least
for the variants I seem to use).

best,
-tony

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[Rd] seek helppage. Possible clarification?
A.J. Rossini