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<DIV>This is my first shot, so be gentle :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>The patch assumes FP wants compatibility with BP 7. If so, it fixes two problems; if not, at least it was a fun exercise.</DIV>
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<DIV>First, BP ignores non-numeric characters when a ReadLn is called with an integer parameter. To fix this, I changed ReadNumeric's end condition to explicitly terminate on all non-numerics.</DIV>
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<DIV>Second, BP will not read a Text file past an EOF character at all, regardless of its location in the file. The fix for this is inelegant (inline buffer check), but I can move this out to an external proc if it's onerous to maintain.</DIV>
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<DIV>It's likely there are things I haven't thought of, so I appreciate comments on it.</DIV>
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