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From: gt4586c@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Read/Write data
Keywords: read data from files
Message-ID: <13768@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 17 Sep 90 20:31:47 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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A great I/O question:  why is it that i can write data out to a file
using WRITELN much, much faster than i can read it back in using READLN?
Would it be better to be using FSRead and FSWrite when writing data to
a textfile?
For reference i'm using Think Pascal 3.0 on a Mac IIci with a Quantum 105MB
internal drive (19ms).


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thomas willett 
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta  
gt4586c@prism.gatech.edu
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