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Re: point_lun [message #19252 is a reply to message #19032]

Tue, 29 February 2000 00:00

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John-David T. Smith
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Martin Schultz wrote:
>
> Hallo Reimar!
>
> since I was looking at a similar issue yesterday night, I came across
> some
> statements about this in the online help. Look for "reading
> files:Windows platform"
> in the help index. It basically confirms what Craig said.
>
> If nothing else helps and you *really* need to read these ASCII files
> platform-
> independently, you'll probably have to resort to reading it as binary
> unformatted
> into your own buffer, filter all CR's (13B) in case there are any, and
> break the
> lines at the line feeds (10B). This still leaves out the Mac World,
> where they use only CR as far as I know...

Or, just read a line at a time, which is platform independent, and how ascii
files are normally read. To skip to the nth line:

lin=''
for i=0,n-1 do readf,un,lin

JD

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		point_lun By: R.Bauer on Wed, 23 February 2000 00:00
		Re: point_lun By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 25 February 2000 00:00
		Re: point_lun By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 23 February 2000 00:00
		Re: point_lun By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 23 February 2000 00:00
		Re: point_lun By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 29 February 2000 00:00

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