Re: reading in a long line of data

Spon writes:

> Surely, this is equivalent to (1800720 * 4) bytes, or (1800720 * 4 *
> 8) bits, or (1800720 * 13) ASCII chars, and therefore massively bigger
> than the buffer. Yet IDL has no problem doing this. What am I missing?
> Does the buffer only come into play with ReadF? 

Apparently so.

> How come?

You've got me. Maybe Karl or someone else from ITTVIS can 
shed some light on this. To be fair, it is usually some kind
of programming error that causes this problem to surface. But
I would like to understand it, since it comes up from time to
time.

Cheers,

David
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