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From: shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: basic to pascal (mks$ in particular)
Message-ID: <2065@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 22:00:21 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.203014.14472@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Mar12.203014.14472@csrd.uiuc.edu> leung@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Bruce Leung) writes:
>I'm trying to read a data file that was written using the mks$ function
>in Basic.  Actually, I assume it was written using that since the only
>code I have is a Basic program to read the file (shown below).
>

Perhaps you could modify the code you have to read in the data, 
then print it back out as strings.  If so, then you can read it
in in C or Pascal and convert it that way, once.

If you want to use C, take a look at fscanf(), or better yet, 
fgets() and sscanf().



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