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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: Reading Text With Pointers...
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Date: 31 Dec 90 16:58:04 GMT
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In article <50164@cornell.UUCP> wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes:
>If I read in a file of text, each character fills a byte. The
>problem is that the 68000 doesn't allow unalligned access, but
>the 68020/30 does. What is the best way to pull of characters
>one by one? 

	The 68000 does allow unaligned access to bytes, but not to words
or longwords. You can pick off characters one at a time with no problem.
(It'll probably be faster to use BlockMove for getting large chunks of 
characters.)

R.



 Rich Siegel	Symantec Languages Group  Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu

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