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From: kvancamp@ARDEC.arpa
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TURBO Pascal READ
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Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 11:44:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 11:44:01 1987
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>I don't care what
>anybody says about buffering, programs shouldn't behave
>that way. This kludgy MS-DOS buffering makes life real interesting
>when you are inheriting stdin and stdin has been redirected from
>a file.

I have to agree with this remark.  But then, Pascal never had any decent I/O 
to begin with -- just look at its unforgiving reads of reals.  That's why I 
(and most people I know who need to read numeric data in Pascal) use my own 
general-purpose input routine that reads a line of data as a string (using 
readln, not read), then evaluates it byte-by-byte to decode the answer in a 
reasonable way.  The one I use most is meant to read any number of reals, 
but is easily adapted to include chars.  It's a simple routine, but if 
anyone would like a copy let me know.  

		  --Ken Van Camp <kvancamp@ARDEC.ARPA>