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From: eggestad%vax.runit.unit.uninett@TOR.NTA.NO (Kalle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Pascal, avoiding text files.
Message-ID: <15:eggestad@vax.runit.unit.uninett>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 06:56:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 06:56:11 1987
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I have - from time to time - the need of avoiding the use of the TEXT 
type/identifier in VAX-Pascal programs (non ascii device control and so on),
and have several times run into the following problem:

Files-11 text files are "piles" of VARYING strings, where the first byte indi-
cates how long the line is. When reading the file as either FILE OF INTEGER or
some sort of FILE OF "block", i try to skip over this information (or handle it
myself in some way) which _fails_.

My _deeply_ behated error message is:

     .... bytes record is too big for the user's buffer.

Any idea how to handle this ? I have wasted too much time fighting this message
by setting record-sizes, access-methods and reading parameters...

Any kind of help will be deeply appreciated !


With regards,

Karl Henrik Eggestad,
Research Scientist - Computing Centre at the University of Trondheim, Norway


Please reply to:

eggestad@vax.runit.unit.uninett  (EAN / Arpa)

kalle@norunit                    (EARN / Bitnet)



=============================== disclaimer ==================================

  The problems indicated above does not necessarily need to be the problems
  of my employer - though - anyway - they will soon be, if i cannot get them
                            solved in due time.

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