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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Reading "leftover" chunks from files
Date: 1999/08/20
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Matthew <I.Dont@Think.So> a �crit dans le message :
37BCD2F1.E0AECF04@Think.So...
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> I want to read in a file so that I can get fixed-length chunks of data
> backwards, and also read in whatever data (smaller than the chunk size)
> is left behind at the end of the file.

I have written a package called Direct_Text_IO. It is a mixture of Direct_IO
and Text_IO, i.e. it allows random access in a text file.
It provides usual operations on Character and strings, and deals properly
with end of lines and end of pages.
It is not finalized (i.e. I didn't yet write the documentation); once it is
done, I will put it on Adalog's components page.
In the mean time, send me a note if you want to try it (my ISP refuses
attachments in this newsgroup).
Feel free to use it and report any problem you may encounter !

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