> The same problem is there in many low level OS libraries - Squeak
> just copied the model in the ANSI C   stdio.h standard. I always did
> think it was pretty stupid. A read/write(file, pos, numbytes) is much
> safer.

Interesting. Another strange thing about files is to cache their size,
as it has been already reported several times in the list. When having
different FileStream-instances onto the same file they don't
necessarily have the same size :-(

Lukas

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