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Q31521: MASM 5.10 EXT.DOC: GetLine - Retrieves Line of Text

Article: Q31521
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.10   | 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_masm
Last Modified: 12-JAN-1989

The following information is from the MASM Version 5.10 EXT.DOC
file.
   Please note that numbering for both COL and LINE variables begins
with 0.

/*  GetLine - retrieves a line of text
 *
 *  The GetLine function retrieves a line of text from the specified
 *  file and places the text in the specified buffer. The text has
 *  all tabs expanded into spaces, and no carriage-return or line-feed
 *  character is included. Lines requested beyond the end of the file
 *  are considered empty.
 *
 *  line        Number of the line to be retrieved
 *  buf         Buffer for text of the line
 *  pfile       Handle of file from which the line is to be retrieved
 *
 *  returns     The number of characters retrieved
 */
int pascal GetLine (line, buf, pfile)
LINE line;
char far *buf;
PFILE pfile;

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