In article <20251124190115.f6256c9bdaacb9ac4603a4ea@127.0.0.1>,   
   Kerr-Mudd, John  wrote:   
   >On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:22:08 +0100   
   >albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article <87o6oyrc7i.fsf@nightsong.com>,   
   >> Paul Rubin   wrote:   
   >>   
   >> The ciforth approach is more sensible. The terminal input buffer is   
   >> filled from the input stream. It is large say 16K.   
   >> Now you carve lines out of the buffer, and use a parse pointer,   
   >> maybe >IN. As soon as you find that there are no more line endings   
   >> in the remaining buffer, you copy the remainder to the start of   
   >> the buffer and fill the buffer to the brim.   
   >> In this case you will not copy more than is necessary.   
   >>   
   >A good approach, IMHO.   
   >But how do you deal with the case where there's no line ending at EoF?   
   >ISTM an additional action is required for the last line.   
      
   There is an action at EoF regardless.   
      
   >   
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