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I second that cubed 😁



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😨 My $0.02: that's a very, very bad idea. Even worse than that, actually. Just because you can doesn't mean you should!



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On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 8:24 AM James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L < rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:



Another useful technique for avoiding level checks is to simply open

your file(s) as *program-described*



While this forces you to parse the data yourself (and eliminates

scatter-gather I/O), it *does* avoid level checks completely.



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