>>Hello,
>>I want to create a error log file, but I don't know how to write to a file without loosing the existing text.
>>Is there a easy way to write "additive" to file?
>
>If you use ?/?? for output to a file using SET PRINTER, you can:
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>SET PRINTER TO File name ADDITIVE
>SET PRINTER ON
>
>You can also use
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>SET ALTERNATE TO File Name ADDITIVE
>SET ALTERNATE ON
>
>to do the same thing
>
>If you use low-level file I/O, you can use an FOPEN() if the file exists to open the file for output, and then immediately do an FSEEK() to get to the end of file, something like:
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>nFH = FOPEN('C:\Some\Text\File',12) && open read-write, buffered
>=FSEEK(nFH,0,2) && Move to end of file

And then
_text=nFH

And after this you can use the \ and \\ and Text ... EndText and TextMerge features. BTW, the Set Text To < filename > should also have the Additive clause.