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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: S'Write and How To Count Bytes
Date: 2000/10/02
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In article <ls5C5.275608$i5.3821851@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
  tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> How about dropping the initial byte count and use an end-of-record
> indicator instead, like LF in Text_IO?
>

I believe he had an external hardware device whose command spec he had
to match.

Of course that's a whole other can of worms. You have no control over
how the various 'Write's in your system represent their objects (unless
you use only ones that you wrote yourself).

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