<<-- InterFile.mesa>> <<-- written by Bill Paxton, May 1981>> <<-- last edit by McGregor, June 10, 1982 4:43 pm>> <<-- for reading and writing Tioga files in (pseudo) InterDoc format>> DIRECTORY File, RopeEdit, IO, TextNode; InterFile: CEDAR DEFINITIONS = BEGIN Ref: TYPE = TextNode.Ref; ROPE: TYPE = RopeEdit.ROPE; Offset: TYPE = TextNode.Offset; MaxLen: Offset = LAST[Offset]; <<-- **** File Input/Output>> ToFile: PROC [fileName: ROPE, node: Ref, start: Offset _ 0, flatten: BOOLEAN _ TRUE] RETURNS [count: Offset]; <<-- write the node on the specified file>> <<-- starts writing at given address in file>> <<-- returns the number of bytes written>> FromFile: PROC [fileName: ROPE, start: Offset _ 0, len: Offset _ MaxLen] RETURNS [Ref]; <<-- create node from the contents of a file>> <<-- starts reading at given start address in file>> <<-- pretends that start+len is the end of the file>> <<-- if file was not created by ToFile>> <<-- then returns a single node containing contents of the file>> FromFileError: ERROR; <<-- **** Input/Output using ropes instead of files>> ToRope: PROC [node: Ref, flatten: BOOLEAN _ TRUE] RETURNS [ROPE]; <<-- resulting rope contains same representation of node as would be put on file>> FromRope: PROC [rope: ROPE, start: Offset _ 0, len: Offset _ MaxLen] RETURNS [Ref]; <<-- reads rope to construct node>> <<-- **** IO Operations ****>> ToStream: PROC [stream: IO.Handle, node: Ref, flatten: BOOLEAN _ TRUE] RETURNS [count: Offset]; <<-- does a series of IO.PutBlock's>> <<-- returns number of bytes written>> FromStream: PROC [stream: IO.Handle, len: Offset _ MaxLen] RETURNS [Ref]; <<-- reads up to len chars from stream (via GetBlock's) to construct a node>> <<-- ***** Initialization>> StartPutFile: PROC; StartGetFile: PROC; END.