[Jprogramming] bigfiles bopen for output

[Don Guinn]

Thanks. Easy to do.


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:27 AM, David Mitchell <davidmitchell at att.net>
wrote:

> bigfiles uses OPEN_EXISTING in the interests of caution.  Feel free to
> modify it to use OPEN_ALWAYS to create the file if it doesn't exist.
>
> Or, you can create it yourself with '' 1!:2 <'abc'
>
> --
> David Mitchell
>
> Don Guinn wrote:
>
>>  Attempting to use bigfiles to copy video files and bopen for output says
>> it
>> can't find the file.
>>
>>   1 bopen_jbf_ 'abc'
>> +-+--------------------------------------------+
>> |2|The system cannot find the file specified.  |
>> +-+--------------------------------------------+
>> Shouldn't it create the file if it doesn't exist or must it exist first?
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