Gavin writes:

>Now we try :CALC FINFO("FILE","EOF") and a program that calls the FLABELINFO
>intrinsic (these have the same behavior so we presume that FINFO simply uses
>FLABELINFO())

It does.

>After experimenting for a while, we decided that F[LABEL]INFO returns the
>current (not updated) information in the file label, but as a *side effect*
>calling FLABELINFO causes the file to be posted to disk (but *after* it has
>already read the old data).

I had noticed this some time ago, while tracking a file as it grew.

-- Bruce


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