Appending to files in OberonF/Component Pascal 1.2

Les Snively (les@windstream.com)
Fri, 15 Aug 97 16:20:08 -0600

I've been trying to find a way to append ascii data to an ascii file
in a project I'm exploring in OberonF 1.2. "Stores" and "Converters"
have eluded my attempts to understand and experiment with in any
meaningful way (the present documentation and my way of grasping ideas
seems not to work together successfully). This has forced me to use
ObxAscii as the basis for the ascii file manipulations that I've done to
date. However, it seems ObxAscii, through several intermediate steps,
will only open a file in a write-from-scratch mode, rather than an
"append" to existing mode.
I only need to append data at the end of an existing file, it's a
log file, essentially. Is there a relatively simple way to do this in
OberonF that I haven't discovered? Or do I have to start from scratch
and build up my own byte by byte file writing mechanism? Any suggestions
would be appreciated.

Les Snively
les@windstream.com