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Surely append access also grants read access. I've changed it to "+<$2" and it works now! Thanks!
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Re^3: File reading with sysseek and sysread
by ysth (Canon) on Dec 02, 2005 at 11:43 UTC
    Surely append access also grants read access.
    No, it doesn't :)
      I probably knew that 10 years ago when I last did any proper direct file access in C.