Sorry to be the one to tell you this, Ted, but I believe there's a bug in
FileReadChars which prevents it from working. I heard about the problem
from INOVAtronics tech support after reporting a problem in a CanDo script
I was working on…
There is no known workaround from within CanDo. However, you can probably
cobble together something w/ARexx that'll do the job. That's what I'm
going to do…
– Mark
Well, I've already got a work around. I wrote a chunk of C code to do what
I need (it compiled to about 8K). I just captured its text output to a
file, did a LoadDocument of the text file, and then parsed the text. Works
fine, but I would rather have done without the call to DOS… Ah, well…
Another befuddled programmer joins the infinite ranks…
<:-P Ted Statham