• Piotr Fusik (9/9) May 17 2005 The following produces the error message "unable to move file pointer": ...
• Ben Hinkle (4/14) May 17 2005 odd. I can't reproduce the problem. The error is coming from a failed
• Piotr Fusik (1/3) May 17 2005 Yes. I use Windows 98SE, if that matters.
• Ben Hinkle (7/11) May 17 2005 hmm. I'll try to find a Win98 box. I was also using dmd.123 but I'm not
• Piotr Fusik (4/4) May 18 2005 The solution is to change the following line of std.stream.d:
• Ben Hinkle (3/7) May 18 2005 whew! thanks for trying that out.

Piotr Fusik <Piotr_member pathlink.com> writes:

The following produces the error message "unable to move file pointer": (DMD
0.122/Windows)

private import std.stream;

void main(char[][] args) {
Stream s = new BufferedFile("foo"); // "foo" exists
ubyte b;
s.read(b);
s.close();
}

"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> writes:

"Piotr Fusik" <Piotr_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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 The following produces the error message "unable to move file pointer": 
 (DMD
 0.122/Windows)

 private import std.stream;

 void main(char[][] args) {
 Stream s = new BufferedFile("foo"); // "foo" exists
 ubyte b;
 s.read(b);
 s.close();
 }

odd. I can't reproduce the problem. The error is coming from a failed 
attempt to "seek". Are you sure those are the reproduction steps? 

Piotr Fusik <Piotr_member pathlink.com> writes:

odd. I can't reproduce the problem. The error is coming from a failed 
attempt to "seek". Are you sure those are the reproduction steps? 

Yes. I use Windows 98SE, if that matters.

"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> writes:

"Piotr Fusik" <Piotr_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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odd. I can't reproduce the problem. The error is coming from a failed
attempt to "seek". Are you sure those are the reproduction steps?

 Yes. I use Windows 98SE, if that matters.

hmm. I'll try to find a Win98 box. I was also using dmd.123 but I'm not 
aware of any bug fixes that should have changed the stream behavior between 
dmd.122 and dmd.123. Maybe the directory and/or file read/write privledges 
are different from my first test. It would be useful to know if someone else 
reading the newsgroup can reproduce it, too. 

Piotr Fusik <Piotr_member pathlink.com> writes:

The solution is to change the following line of std.stream.d:
long diff = bufferCurPos-bufferSourcePos;
to:
long diff = cast(long) bufferCurPos - bufferSourcePos;

"Ben Hinkle" <ben.hinkle gmail.com> writes:

"Piotr Fusik" <Piotr_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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 The solution is to change the following line of std.stream.d:
 long diff = bufferCurPos-bufferSourcePos;
 to:
 long diff = cast(long) bufferCurPos - bufferSourcePos;

whew! thanks for trying that out.