Hi Folks:
 
I want to write a program which can read and evaluate any BRW intermediate
report file. This is a self-describing file. I know already how its
structure is coded in the file label. But if I want to write a general
program, I have to open and read the file with sophisticated FOPEN and
FREADDIR intrinsic calls instead of the simple "open(f,n)" and
"readdir(f,p,b)" PASCAL statements because these read fixed number of
bytes as the "f" file and the "b" buffer are declared.
 
There are some programs in the CSL like BROWSE which were written in
PASCAL and can handle files with any record length. So there must be a
_simple_ solution. Please help me before I reinvent the wheel!
                                              Frank
 
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