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Subject: MSDOS V8 reads
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Date: 10 Nov 90 01:10:49 GMT
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Icon Trekkies!

Is it possible that Version 8 of Icon on MS-DOS will not read past
an octal 32 with reads???

	procedure main()
		fd := open("TESTOFF.DBF","ru") | stop("DBF open failed")
		while line := reads(fd,32) do {
		      write("*line=",*line)
		}
	end

TESTOFF.DBF happens to have an octal 032 in position 49 of the file.

The above program on MS-DOS returns:

*line=32
*line-16

The above program on my UNIX-pc reads continuous 32 byte lines
until it reaches the real end-of-file.

It appears to me that Version 8 of Icon for MS-DOS will not read past
this CTL-Z (octal 032) character.

Joe Hall