[Coco] variable sized GETlike operation in basic 09?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Best is to use the I$Read or I$ReadLn SYSCALL functions... Just set  
the Y register to the # of bytes you want to read for each call. You  
can vary it for every read, if you want.

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L. Curtis Boyle


On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know if its possible to do a GET for changing amounts of
> data? Or another fast way to read changing sized 'records'?  GETting
> one byte at a time is very slow compared to getting several in the
> HTTPD program.  Right now I GET a 32 byte array at a time out of files
> and just try to make sure files are sized a multiple of 32, but thats
> no good.  I also pad out all the headers coming in from the client to
> a standard length so GET can work there, also not great.
>
> I think I could use SYSCALL and I$Read, but this seems wasteful, maybe
> not?  Maybe I'm missing something in B09?  It seems GET only reads the
> size of the variable(s) specified, and you cannot reDIM or change the
> size of the variables in any way.
>
> Thanks for any clues
> -Aaron
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