Hello,

is it possible to open a file as an binary-file, position the filepointer
and than use it as an text-file? Or is there another possibility to
position the filepointer in a text-file?

Hope somebody could help me.

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Michael Bialas                  e-Mail: mich...@quinto.ruhr.de

Uses SysUtils,Windows;
...
Var
  F : Text;
...
SetFilePointer(TTextRec(F).Handle,100,nil,File_Begin);

HTH.

Regards,

Jani J?rvinen
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Completely possible, if you just treat the binary-file as the
textfile like that:

Var f:file of {Whatever type u want to assign for the record in file}

begin
  read(f,{something});
  write(f,{something});
  seek(f,{pointeroffile});
end;