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Hans,

At 02:42 PM 3/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, I don't think it would be straight-forward.  Considering the amount
>of work needed versus the amount of benefit, I don't think the function
>could compete against other items which would be of more benefit to
>most RPG programmers.

 I must be missing something, since the function is already in the language
and the compiler resolves the buffer description at compile time...

>If you need some sort of lookahead on sequential reads to an externally
>described file, you could probably manage nicely using externally
>described data structures and READ into DS.

 Wouldn't you still have to define the from and to positions in the
look-ahead area?

 -mark

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