CompuServe Thread

Brendan, I had once tried to convert Steve's file over to Benchmark, but for a variety of reasons, decided not to. But, here's somethings I came up with while doing it. 1: Open expects Name to be an ADDRESS, not a String! So pass it ADR(string)… tmp := Open(ADR(MyFile),Mode); 2: You cant increment pointers in Benchmark…However, you can inc address's, SO… tmpadr : ADDRESS; tmpadr := IndexPtr; INC(tmpadr); IndexPtr := tmpadr; Now I has assumed when I was trying to convert this originally, that you COULD NOT do this, one of the reason's I gave up. But Steve, and a few other people have told me that you CAN, unless I misunderstood Steve. 3: This is due to some of the var being INTEGER's and other's being CARDINAL; You can fix this by type casting… FOR i := 1 to CARDINAL(CharsToMove) DO I'm Not sure which is a CARDINAL, and which is an INTEGER, but just look at the VAR decleration's. 4: In Benchmark, there is a module called System (NOT the same as SYSTEM!!!) That opens allmost all you're librares for you. So you don't need to OPEN, or CLOSE , Libraries at all. There are some things worth looking at in this module, so check it out. BTW, if Steve, or anyone else, say's that num 2 above is incorrect, I would go by what they say, as I could have misunderstood Steve in his message to me. Good luck, and hope this helps, Jim Vogel ps There are a bunch of message under FastFileIO in this sub 12 that talk about INC(Pointers). Take a look at them , and see if you agree with what I said about this.

Brendan, I had once tried to convert Steve's file over to Benchmark, but for a variety of reasons, decided not to. But, here's somethings I came up with while doing it. 1: Open expects Name to be an ADDRESS, not a String! So pass it ADR(string)… tmp := Open(ADR(MyFile),Mode); 2: You cant increment pointers in Benchmark…However, you can inc address's, SO… tmpadr : ADDRESS; tmpadr := IndexPtr; INC(tmpadr); IndexPtr := tmpadr; Now I has assumed when I was trying to convert this originally, that you COULD NOT do this, one of the reason's I gave up. But Steve, and a few other people have told me that you CAN, unless I misunderstood Steve. 3: This is due to some of the var being INTEGER's and other's being CARDINAL; You can fix this by type casting… FOR i := 1 to CARDINAL(CharsToMove) DO I'm Not sure which is a CARDINAL, and which is an INTEGER, but just look at the VAR decleration's. 4: In Benchmark, there is a module called System (NOT the same as SYSTEM!!!) That opens allmost all you're librares for you. So you don't need to OPEN, or CLOSE , Libraries at all. There are some things worth looking at in this module, so check it out. BTW, if Steve, or anyone else, say's that num 2 above is incorrect, I would go by what they say, as I could have misunderstood Steve in his message to me. Good luck, and hope this helps, Jim Vogel ps There are a bunch of message under FastFileIO in this sub 12 that talk about INC(Pointers). Take a look at them , and see if you agree with what I said about this.

I see that Jim Vogel already answered some of your questions. Rather than elaborate, I've simply decided to uploaded a version of FastFileIO for Benchmark. As soon as the SYSOPs clear it, it will appear in DL12. I've also uploaded my old Serial module, adapted to Benchmark. Hope this will do the trick. – Steve –

I see that Jim Vogel already answered some of your questions. Rather than elaborate, I've simply decided to uploaded a version of FastFileIO for Benchmark. As soon as the SYSOPs clear it, it will appear in DL12. I've also uploaded my old Serial module, adapted to Benchmark. Hope this will do the trick. – Steve –