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   dxf to Paul Rubin   
   Re: Idiomatic way to read a word of text   
   18 Nov 25 13:21:48   
   
   From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 18/11/2025 10:25 am, Paul Rubin wrote:   
   > ...   
   > I guess I could use the FILE word set to write something like getc()   
   > with its own buffering, but that seems messy.   
      
   Less messy when someone has already done it.  See BFILE (buffered files)   
   and its documentation SFILE.TXT included in the zip below.   
      
   FILESYS2.ZIP   
      
   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kh2WcPUc3hQpLcz7TQ-YQiowrozvxfGw   
      
   Some assembly required.   
      
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