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Re: Basic/V and large records?
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Frank Gribbin <[log in to unmask]>
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Frank Gribbin <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:24:43 -0500
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Hi Edward,

FCOPY's DEBLOCK option can be used to split each record in two.  Then you
can read each pair and treat them as a record.

Regards,

Frank Gribbin
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP


On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:43:54 -0500, Edward Berner
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've been playing with BASIC/V a little lately, and I'm curious about
>something.  I have a file with a 318 byte record size.  Is there any way to
>read a whole record from this file into a BASIC/V program?  I seem to be
>limited by BASIC/V's string length limit of ~255 chars.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Edward Berner

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