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From: miser@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Dan Miser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: String functions in Pascal
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Date: 12 Jun 89 20:47:27 GMT
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Hello net.  I've read this group for a long time and have learned much 
from it.  Now I have a question that maybye you could help with.

I'm writing a program that concatanates files.  However, I cannot 
write and read to the disk in 512 bytes because I need to use readln 
and writeln (redirected, of course).  I need these because I have to 
compare string lengths, and check on certain characters inside the 
string.  But, as you guessed this is too slow.  I've thought of 
typecasting, but this doesn't want to work.

So, any ideas how I can write in big blocks while still being able to 
compare string like functions to the file?

Thanks in advance.

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