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From: bruce@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Ahmon Dancy)
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Subject: Re: Reading SEQ files
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Date: 4 Mar 91 16:27:56 GMT
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you're right, that input#2,a$ would be faster but I think everyone knows
the problem with the INPUT command like: it stops at colons, commas and I
think it is limited to 88 characters.  Sometimes that is not sufficient.

BRUCE!