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Some text file tricks

The following listing contains the interface of the TFDD unit.

This unit provides some tricks with text files, e.g. a "tee" file which causes everything written to it to be written to two other files.

{ Some text file tricks.

  Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Author: Frank Heckenbach <frank@pascal.gnu.de>

  This file is part of GNU Pascal.

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{$gnu-pascal,I-}
{$if __GPC_RELEASE__ < 20030412}
{$error This unit requires GPC release 20030412 or newer.}
{$endif}

unit TFDD;

interface

uses GPC;

{ Write to multiple files. Everything written to Dest after calling
  this procedure will be written to both File1 and File2. Can be
  chained. }
procedure MultiFileWrite (var Dest, File1, File2: AnyFile);
  attribute (name = '_p_MultiFileWrite');