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Subject: Re: A lighter read function 
In-reply-to: david's message of Thu, 12 Dec 91 19:58:56 -0500.
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1991 19:37:04 -0600
From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
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 David's quite right; obviously I haven't tested my read function enough.
I'd make it
	_v=`` $nl {line; echo $status $nl $status}
since I don't want to count on line returning just 0 or 1 status.
And it should check $#_v too, just in case.

	- cks