close a file

The Americans are considering whether it makes sense to close a file or two, officials said.

The division had closed a file on the family before she was born.

That's all right' The other copper closed a file and stood up.

'Never like to close a file until we know what happened.

Garcia closed a file on his desk and nodded.

He nodded to Harper and closed a file.

He was closing a filing drawer; careless of the noise he made.

If you need to open or close a file, start an application, or perform any other function you will have to ask me for permission.

Some run-time libraries may close a file if the program calls the run-time exit.

One can open or close a file, make queries and generate forms, reports and labels from a series of command panels.

Closing a file, he swiveled around and slid the file into a slot in a safe behind his desk.

Resource leaks, e.g. due to forgetting to close a file handler.

The latter places a copy to a specified location (index), closing a file descriptor if it already exists.

But a good policeman - and he counted himself a good policeman - never closed a file while there were questions unanswered.

In the second claim, he received $40,000 because he hurt his shoulder and arm while closing a file drawer in 1988.

While Keenan said in 2007 that "1986 was the last year the firm closed a file without a recovery," his record has included both ups and downs.

And I would be surprised if anything in the API allowed you to, like, deliberately close a file that had been - that hadn't been saved.

Closing a file will sound off a threatening 'I'll be back' sound bite, whilst erasing a file will play the sound of a rubber rubbing against a sheet of paper.

You can open and close a file several times within one program, but it is generally considered "better form" not to close a file until you have finally finished with it.

Closing a file flushes the buffer which means the data remaining in the buffer (input or output stream) is moved out of it in the direction it is ought to be.

Specifically, one may create a new file or edit an existing file and save it; open or load a pre-existing file into memory; or close a file without saving it.

For example, it allows a company to become the sole owner of the common procedure of closing a file by clicking on the top right-hand corner of the image on the screen of a computer.

This is an issue for program correctness when objects are tied to non-memory resources, whose release is an externally visible program behavior, such as closing a network connection, releasing a device or closing a file.

I imagine the mother closing a file on her desk, grabbing her jacket, checking to make sure she has her keys, her cellphone, perhaps tucking away some cash for a cab, then darting out into the night.

Then they broke into giggles when they learned that they could make their computer say "hasta la vista, baby," (courtesy of Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator 2") whenever they closed a file on screen.