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Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2018 6:23 pm**

It seems there's something wrong when you try to seek&write after reading from a file. If you don't read first, then seeking and writing works. This happens on MorphOS, OS3, and OS4, but not on Windows.

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f$="ram:test.txt"

; This writes to the middle of the file as supposed
StringToFile("abcdefg", f$)
f=OpenFile(Nil, f$, #MODE_READWRITE)
Seek(f, 3)
WriteString(f, "0")
CloseFile(f)
DebugPrint(FileToString(f$))

; Why this appends to the end and doesn't write to the middle of the file?
StringToFile("abcdefg", f$)
f=OpenFile(Nil, f$, #MODE_READWRITE)
ReadString(f, 1)
Seek(f, 3)
WriteString(f, "0")
CloseFile(f)
DebugPrint(FileToString(f$))

The output from this under Amiga platforms is:
abc0efg 7
abcdefg0 8

While on Windows it is:
abc0efg 7
abc0efg 7

I tried to replicate this on plain Lua on MorphOS, and there it prints just like on Windows, so it seems it's Hollywood which doesn't do it right for some reason.

A workaround for this is to open a file, read it and store information you need, close file, re-open it and write then what you need...

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:35 pm**

Interesting observation. I'll see what's wrong there.

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:32 pm**

Fixed, thanks for reporting. The problem is that Hollywood uses its own file buffering mechanism because the buffered I/O functions found in dos.library in OS3, OS4, AROS and MorphOS are very slow. But of course custom file buffering can get a little tricky so I'm glad you spotted this problem

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 - Fix [Amiga]: Fixed wrong file cursor positioning when writing to a file after seeking it to a
   position that didn't require a physical seek because the new position was still within the file's
   internal read buffer kept by Hollywood

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