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From: adw@otter.hpl.hp.com (Dave Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Actor File Class Buglet?
Message-ID: <55040006@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 21 Jan 91 15:30:56 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.043531.13108@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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>From: i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- ELT Computer Applications Group)

>     I've had some awful funny problems with Class:TextFile, method:readLine()
>in Actor3.0. Apparently when there is a <cr> on byte N * 256 of a file 
>readLine() ignores it and goes to the next <cr>. The code for this
>(buffered) method is included with the class and is not a primitive.

Indeed - the readline() implementation assumes for some reason that
the <delimiter> instance variable is a single character. There's no reason
that it should be - indeed the *default* value is CR_LF (2 chars), which
gives the problem that you describe. It is possible (but fiddly) to recode
the method so that it works correctly.

Dave Wells