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On 12/12/2016 05:53 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> A Get_Line like the above
> generally requires some sort of incremental allocation (a buffer is
> allocated, if its not big enough a bigger one is allocated, the first one is
> copied into it, and then we repeat until a <LF> appears),

As the person who created the Get_Line function, I can assure that's not how 
most versions are implemented.

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Jeff Carter
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