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From: hiebeler@csv.rpi.edu (David Hiebeler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: turbo & byte-reading
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Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 23:35:07 EDT
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Hi there.  I am using Turbo-Pascal on an IBM PC and want to do some byte-
reading.  Specifically, here's the set-up:  I have some plotfiles.  These
files are stored simple as a series of bytes, each byte's bits representing
so many pixels (7 or 8?).  There is no header or anything in the plotfiles,
and they are stored one row after another, with no carriage returns in 
between or anything -- just a series of bytes.
  What I want to do is read in the file, one byte at a time, so that I may
process it, and construct an array of bits.  Does anyone know how to read
bytes like this in Turbo?  Assume the plot is PLANESIZE x PLANESIZE.  I can
handle converting the bytes into a 2-D array, I just can't get the bytes!
Thanks, please help me soon!
                             -D.H.
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David Hiebeler       hiebeler@csv.rpi.edu
Chatham, NY         "Illusions, Richard!  Every
(also Troy, NY)      bit of it illusions!"