Reading files backwards

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I have found that referring to files as URLs is a beautiful thing because it
allows you to refer to a file as if it were a variable which means you can
use all your chunk expressions on it.  Sooo, try

put the last line of url "file:blabla.txt" into r

The only exception I've found to my opening statement is that delete doesn't
seem to work with URLs.  I.E. delete the last line of url "file:blabla.txt"
returns an error.

Rich
Payne Sparkman Mfg.
shop at paynesparkman.com

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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:54 AM
Subject: Reading files backwards


> Hi Gang,
>
> Got a problem which may help others if there is a solution...
> I need to read the very last line from a file that's 3 - 20MBs large...
> So I tried:
>
> open file blabla for reading
> read from file blabla for -100
> put the result into r
> put it into x
> close file blabla
>
> Unfortunately I never got an answer back, MC crashed...
> No result, no error...
>
> I dont want to resort to external programs (tail.exe) to do this...
> Does anyone have a standard scripted solution?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Xavier
>
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