> # To subscribers of the xforms list from Matt Post <manimal@bobo.newaygo.mi.us> :
> I need a way to load a file and present it to the user for editing,
> after which he can click on save and the edited contents will be saved.
> A browser doesn't work because I can't edit it, and I can't figure out
> how to load a file into a multilined input, except by reading the entire
> contents of the file into a variable large enough to contain it, then
> using fl_set_input(obj, super_huge_variable). Is their a standard
> function that I've missed to do this? Or is there another way that
> anyone can think of?
Maybe mmap would help. You can then just copy the visible bit of the file.
Dick
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