[fpc-pascal]File errors

[James Mills]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 01:36:41PM +0200, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How do you check for file errors such as "Disk Full" before attempting
> > > to write out a file to disk ?
> > > You can easily check if a file exists with the fileExists function...
> > > Can something similar be done for other file errors ?
> > 
> > You can check with diskfree() how much space is left on a disk
> 
> Can be dangerous in multi tasking and/or multi user system. Also that
> doesn't keep track of e.g. the reserved rootspace on unix.
> 
> Best way is to check ioresult after writing each block to see if it is zero?

Or use a try except ?

cheers
James

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