Category : Modula II Source Code
Archive   : MODULA2.ZIP
Filename : FILEIO.DEF
FROM SYSTEM IMPORT WORD, BYTE;
EXPORT QUALIFIED
File, FilePos, IOModeType, IOResultType, EOLChar,
Open, Create, Close, GetPos, SetPos,
ReadChar, ReadNBytes, ReadWord,
WriteChar, WriteNBytes, WriteWord, WriteString;
CONST
EOLChar = 12C; (* ASCII LF, for now.. *)
TYPE
File;
FilePos = RECORD high, low: CARDINAL; END;
IOModeType = (readmode, writemode, readwritemode);
IOResultType = (OK, NameError, SpaceError, UsageError,
StatusError, DeviceError, EofError, AccessError);
PROCEDURE Open( VAR file: File;
name: ARRAY OF CHAR;
mode: IOModeType;
VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE Create(VAR file: File;
name: ARRAY OF CHAR;
mode: IOModeType;
erase: BOOLEAN;
VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE Close(VAR file: File; VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE ReadNBytes(VAR file: File;
VAR data: ARRAY OF BYTE;
nbytes: CARDINAL;
VAR count: CARDINAL;
VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE ReadChar(VAR file: File;
VAR data: CHAR;
VAR result: IOResultType);
(* End of line sequence is compressed to EOLChar *)
PROCEDURE ReadWord(VAR file: File;
VAR data: WORD;
VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE WriteChar(VAR file: File;
data: CHAR;
VAR result: IOResultType);
(* EOLChar is expanded to an end-of-line sequence *)
PROCEDURE WriteWord(VAR file: File;
data: WORD;
VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE WriteNBytes(VAR file: File;
VAR data: ARRAY OF BYTE;
nbytes: CARDINAL;
VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE WriteString(VAR file: File;
data: ARRAY OF CHAR;
VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE SetPos(VAR file: File;
pos: FilePos;
VAR result: IOResultType);
PROCEDURE GetPos(VAR file: File;
VAR pos: FilePos;
VAR result: IOResultType);
END FileIO.
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