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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you get the NewLine mode to work?
Keywords: Newline,Filemanager,PBread
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Date: 10 Nov 90 19:37:23 GMT
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In article <18094@unix.SRI.COM> mxmora@sri-unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) writes:
>I'm trying to get the newline mode to work with PBread
>but I am having no luck. in IM it states:
>
>"Note: Advanced programmers: Bit 7 of ioPosmode is the newline flag;
>it's set if read operations should terminate at a newline character. The
>ASCII code of the newline character is specified in the high-order byte of
>ioPosMode. If the newline flag is set, the data will be read, one byte at a
>time unitl the newline character is encountered, ioReqCount bytes have been 
>read, or the end-of-file is reached."
>
>This is what I tried :
>
>posmode := $0D00;          {set the highorder byte to CR }
I think you also need to add FSFromStart.
> BitSet(@PosMode, 0);      {set bit 7 }
Nope.  This sets the wrong bit.  This sets bit 15, not 7.  Try
PosMode := bor(PosMode, $0080);
if you have 'bor'.  (BitSet is inefficient).  If you don't,
BitSet(@PosMode, 8);
ought to do it.
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