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From: graifer@net1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HyperCard file reading test
Message-ID: <3768@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 02:28:36 EDT
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Keywords: How NOT to read files with HyperCard!


I am having some trouble with file reading in Hypertext.  I have a text
file which several editors and the finder all agree contains >10K of text.
But no matter how I read it, I get nothing!
on mouseUp
  open file "Test Text"
  read from file "Test Text" until return
  put size of it into message
  close file "Test Text"
end mouseUp

this rule always gives a 0 result, even if I change the "until return" to
"for 100".  I've made sure the correct directory is in my home stack 
documents card, and if I take this out, I get a getfile dialog asking for 
the file.  So it's isn't that it cannot find the file.  This is under 3.2/5.3

Any ideas?
                              Dan Graifer
                              graifer@net1.UCSD.EDU
Disclaimer: Nobody ever listens to me anyways; Why should they start now?