fread & the line eater

[cottrell at nbs-vms.ARPA]

[eat me]
1) sorry about the null & truncated msgs re: fread
2) when are lines eaten & not eaten?
3) re: fread

i was trying to say look at the code for fread. it returns the number of
items read. splice on the truncated msg you already read here.

[etx]