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excerpt: "Have you ever wondered what was in a file on the microdrive? I guess I must be the curious type! I just had to find out, but it took me awhile to discover a method for doing so. In the past I had always opened a channel for input and then used the INPUT keyword…"
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# File Peekin’

Have you ever wondered what was in a file on the microdrive? I guess I must be the curious type! I just had to find out, but it took me awhile to discover a method for doing so. In the past I had always opened a channel for input and then used the INPUT keyword plus “#” and the channel designation for reading fil