(open "myfile" "a") doesn't work as expe

[gregben]

The following code:

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(device (open "myfile" "a"))
(print "This goes in myfile")
(close (device))
(exit)

fails with: value expected : (open "myfile" "a")



when the file "myfile" doesn't exist.

If you use (on Unix):



#touch myfile



And rerun the code above, it works as expected.



I would expect that a file opened for appending with "a"

or "append" would not require preexistence of the

file to start writing to it. This is the common usage,

at least on Unix systems.

[Lutz]

I agree, added an O_CREAT flag to append mode in version 8.5.5



Lutz