Re: READ-FILE Failure

Do you mean READ-LINE instead of READ-FILE ? There have been no
fixes to either in quite a long time. Please provide an example
of the failure, including a datafile to reproduce it with, to
help_at_forth.com

Thanks,
Rick

Monday, February 10, 2003, 8:20:23 AM, you wrote:

BM> READ-FILE, a standard word, fails when the number of characters
BM> requested equals the number of characters on a line in the file
BM> (not counting the EOL characters). As documented in the source
BM> code, the file pointer should be positioned at the beginning of
BM> the EOL. The bug is that the file is actually getting positioned
BM> AFTER the EOL characters.

BM> Has there been a fix posted that I missed?

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