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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Speeding up Text_IO
Date: 1998/01/15
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I wonder if it might be an idea to slightly redefine the behaviour of
Get_Immediate, so that it does not do any line or page counting, and also
so that it specifically does not interpret end-of-line or anything else. 
Maybe a Put_Immediate could be provided for the equivalent simplicity of
output?

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