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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Binary value
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"Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com> writes:

> I've often thought that the "default base" in text_io should allow you to set
> the default INPUT base, too, so that users of it could just specify that they
> wanted the user to be able to plug in a number in a certain base without
> using the base and pound signs.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

You can read the thing as a string, and then say something like
T'Image("2#" & The_Input_String & "#").

- Bob