Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote in message
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>
> david sharp <dsh### [at] interportnet> wrote...
> >
> > What is it that the FastMacroPatch does that other fseek/ftell dependent
> > stuff in POV doesn't?
>
> Not much different.  Part of it is to use ftell twice to determine the
> length of the macro.  But the problem is that fread() reads a single byte
> for CR+LF (converts two to '\n'), but ftell()-ftell() will give two bytes
> for CR+LF.  Unfortunately, this does not always happen and is not at all
> consistent across operating systems or even compilers on the same OS.

I just posted a message (since cancelled), about a fix. But it didn't
really (only coincidentally worked), so if anyone read it, forget it,
please.

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