From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-02-05, Bill Leary  wrote:   
   > The limitations, especially the "open only once" are artificial and   
   > intended to highlight a perceived feature of C's standard library.  In   
   > Pascal, if I really needed to access the file both ways at the same time   
   > (and I'd need to be convinced it was necessary), I'd either open it twice,   
   > once each way, or open it as binary then whomp up my own line and   
   > character read routines.  Which choice would depend on the higher   
   > necessities of the program.   
      
   Still, I always wondered what the benefit was of having separate assign   
   and reset/rewrite procedures. A legacy thing I guess.   
      
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