IsAstack ( )
Robert Brenstein
rjb at robelko.com
Wed Jul 4 06:58:08 CDT 2007
>On 02/07/07, Brian Yennie
><<mailto:briany at qldlearning.com>briany at qldlearning.com> wrote:
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>>Reading from a file should be perfectly safe even if it is in use -
>>writing is the dangerous one.
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>True - but I see no advantage over using the built in exists()
>function and removing the stack from memory afterwards - it is not
>subject to file format changes, detects if a stack is corrupt and I
>doubt is any slower?
>
Unless it is a really big stack and/or has lots of substacks.
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