[fpc-pascal] RE: About reset(aFile, FileNameString)

[Jeff Pohlmeyer]

> All of the Pascals that I have used allowed the 
> following shorthand, an extension:
> reset(aFile, FileNameString); {or rewrite, etc.}
> I tried overloading reset() ... but it didn't work.

procedure reset(var f:text; const fn:string);
begin
assign(f, fn);
system.reset(f);
end;

procedure reset(var f:file; const fn:string);
begin
assign(f, fn);
system.reset(f);
end;
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