Re: TStringGrid

On 14 Apr 2005 01:30:21 -0700, alanglloyd@xxxxxxx wrote:

>No - possibly it should be WriteBuffer for both, so that an exception
>is thrown if it fails. I think that code was written in dubious mode
><g>.

I get the point
- silent errors are tricky
- I've just checked and it looks for Zero write bytes before writing
- not a problem nowadays - but lethal under MSDOS

>But once a file (stream) is satisfactorily opened I wonder what the
>base cause would be of any errors which could cause a write failure
>(particularly on a single PC).

Unrecoverable for sure

One thing .. I once got burnt by Write( S[1], Length( S ) )
- when S was zero length

- the upside was it got me to turn on range checking
- permanently
<G>


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