[fpc-pascal]FORTRAN-like read

[Alan Mead]

I want to provide a formatted read like FORTRAN's.  I have found a
public-domain implementation but it concatenats the input data as
bytes, making assumptions about the endian-ness and size of various
types.  The alternatives I've devised are (1) returning a sequence of
strings or (2) a linked list of records.  

Is there a way, possibly an OOP way, of representing a sequence of
values of arbitrary type?  

Thanks!

-Alan

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