[Coco] Reading Files In DECB

[coco at jechar.ca]

  Anyone

  I wonder if anybody has some basic program that can read the contents 
of a portion of
  an arbitrary file into a string.

  For Example suppose you wanted to read 80 characters from file X 
starting at character 800
  of the file which may be may be either binary or ascii into a string 
say TX$.

  How would you do It my atempts are geting hung up on the FIELD command.

  Charlie