>Could some kind soul give me a little hand up with this very simple task
>that is none the less baffling me:
>
>Could you show me a code snippet that will allow me to:
>
>    Open an existing file for reading
>    Open a new file for writing
>    Read the input file a line at a time
>    Write the line into  the output file
>

| fileIn fileOut aLine |
fileIn := FileStream fileNamed: 'fred.txt'.
fileOut := FileStream fileNamed: 'wilma.txt'.
[fileIn atEnd] whileFalse:
	[aLine := fileIn upTo: (Character cr).
	fileOut nextPutAll: aLine; cr.].

I didn't try it, but I think it's about right.

Mark

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