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SelectText

Wait for event on typed ontyped file.

Declaration

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function SelectText(

  var T: Text;

  TimeOut: ptimeval

):LongInt;

function SelectText(

  var T: Text;

  TimeOut: LongInt

):LongInt;

Description

SelectText executes the Select call on a file of type Text. You can specify a timeout in TimeOut. The SelectText call determines itself whether it should check for read or write, depending on how the file was opened : With Reset it is checked for reading, with Rewrite and Append it is checked for writing.

Errors

See Select. SYS_EBADF can also mean that the file wasn't opened.

See also

Select

  

Wait for events on file descriptors

GetFS

  

Return file selector