Using read-io on a file.......

[jfdutcher]

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The small script below (lifted from Carl's 'read-cgi' function)
seems to return nothing. A simple 'read %filename', of course, returns the whole file. I want records whose length is 281 chars.....they are fixed format.

It turns out that the 'read-cgi' script also fails when using the  'POST' action (that is if I submit a form with 'GET' to 'read-cgi' it returns the form fields...using 'POST', however, seems to return nothing.

This is the code:

data: make string! 281
buffer: make string! 281
port: open/direct %mcare-remit.txt
read-io port buffer 281
append data buffer
clear buffer
close port
print data  <-------------  prints nothing    ??
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