I had to deal with that back in the 70's when I was tasked with reading some
1200 byte record files from another system. My solution was an SPL procedure
that accepted the MPE file number of the file (SFN(x)), an EOF/Error return
integer, and a variable number of parameters into which it stuffed the data
from the file, based on the size of each parameter. It was pretty easy to
do, because BASIC pushed descriptors for all the parameters in a call onto
the stack also.

Y'know, that would probably be fun to try & recreate. Anybody want to loan
me an SPL compiler?

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Berner [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:44 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] Basic/V and large records?


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.

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Edward Berner

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