BlockWrite procedure

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Standard Units

System Unit

System Unit Procedures and Functions

BlockWrite procedure

Targets: MS-DOS, OS/2, Win32
System Unit

Writes one or more records from a variable.

Declaration:

procedure BlockWrite(var F: File; var Buf;
                      Count: Longint[; var Result: Longint]);

where:

  F        untyped file variable
  Buf      any variable
  Count    an expression of type Word
  Result   a variable of type Word

Remarks:
BlockWrite works only on open files and advances the current file pointer. IOResult returns an error code if an error occurred, otherwise IOResult is set to zero. Also note that BlockWrite is not limited to 65,535 (64K) bytes while writing to a file, i.e. Count may be > 64K.


BlockRead procedure	Table of Content	Break procedure

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