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"John A.M. Darnell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 22 May 2003 08:22:57 -0500
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Emmanuel:

   Shane has already corrected me on how absurd my thinking was in
considering 127k to be a large file.


R,

John A.M. Darnell
Software Development
In honor of THE MATRIX RELOADED:
In the first movie, close to the climax, Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss
take a harrowing express ride up an elevator by explosively disconnecting
the counterweight.  Just before activating the detonator, Reeves says
something.  What was it that he said?






Emmanuel <[log in to unmask]>
Sent by: Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
05/22/2003 02:46 AM
Please respond to Macintosh Scripting Systems


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At 5:35 PM -0500 21/05/03, John A.M. Darnell wrote:
>Bill:
>
>   After some agonizing testing I figured out that what happens is that
>even though the documentation says that a READ...BEFORE command does not
>read in the delimiter, the fact seems to be that it does, and then
>discards it (i.e. does not provide it to the program).
>
>   Unfortunately the file is potentially huge (the biggest one on record
>is 127k) so I have to take the data a chunk at a time.

Do you mean 127 GB?

Emmanuel

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