Greetings,
  Does someone have a spare discourse upon BASIC, file and segmentation
sitting around somewhere?  I'm in need of one.
  I have a BASIC program I'm supposed to be fixing up.  It has one underlying
log file used in all segments.  In a few segments, it uses file 2.  For
reading in CSMAN15, for writing in CSMAN16 and for reading in CSMAN21 and 22.
In one segment, it uses file 3 for writing.  It's actually the CSMAN21 and 22
I want to ask about.
  They used to be just CSMAN21, but the code got too big for a segment, so I
split them into two at a fairly natural divide.  Unfortunately, the file #2
access happens in both segments.  No problem, I thought, I'll add a
  files #1,#2
at the beginning of CSMAN22 and all will be well.  Not so.  ATTEMPT TO READ
FROM WRITE-ONLY FILE (or something close to that).  File reads fine in 21, dies
with that error on read in 22.  Ok, so I went back to the only documentation I
have--the pocket guide.  After some reading, it appeared that one of two
courses should gain me the solution.  The first would be to change that
statement to
  files #1,#4
and the read from #2 or else change the files statement in 21 to
  files #1,*,*,*
assign my file-to-read to 4, change the files statment in 22 to
  files #1,*,*,#4
and read from #4.

No luck in either case.  In the first, I get the same ATTEMPT TO READ FROM
WRITE-ONLY FILE and in the second, I get ATTEMPT TO ACCESS UNOPENED FILE.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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