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in reply to TIMTOWTDI -- so long as it's not my way

I recently could not sleep and decided to do some coding (anyone else do that?) and deep in the bowels of my program came up with this gem:
seek(FOOBAR, 2, 0);
This appeared right before I was to write information (e.g. append) to the end of a file. Needless to say, the error was discovered very quickly! Luckily, I had a backup of the file in question. :)