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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: File manager's "Newline" mode
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Date: 25 Sep 89 08:15:52 GMT
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In article <12604@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> borcelf@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Fernando Borcel) writes:
>	IM vII and vIV mention a "newline" mode when reading from a (text) file.
>But it doesn't seem to mention how this mode is set.  So the question is:
>How do you set it?

You use PBRead(), and you stuff the newline character into the high byte
of ioPosMode. Caution, this is _only_ supported by the file manager, in
particular, it is not supported by the Serial Driver, so yo can't read
from the serial port up to the next newline using this method.

--- David Phillip Oster      7 line signature follows
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about the poorly digitized fellatio on an IBM porno program. "Mac is better
on everything, and this is no execption."  -- "Computer Porn at the Office"
by Reese Erlich, _This_World_, S.F. Chronicle, p.8, Aug 13, 1989

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