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From: MIKEA%BROWNVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Michael J Antonio)
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Subject: Read from file, write to file
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Date: 19 Jun 89 12:28:17 GMT
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Believe it or not, HC actually DOES have an end of file marker.  The
following script works fine for me.

on doIt
  read from file <fileName> until empty
  put the number of chars in it
end doIt

When writing to a file, I use option charactors as end-of-field markers.
I also use them when reading files into a stack.

MikeA