This report is being closed because I could not successfully replicate this issue without more information.  

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thank you for your time,
Larry Trutter

Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> hi all
>
> can someone help me here?
>
> I did the following
> |stream |
> stream := (MultiByteFileStream fileNamed: 'BD4TabsDelimited.txt').
> stream converter: MacRomanTextConverter new.
> self assert: (stream upTo: Character cr) =  '        Achille Talon     
> Greg        Pas de pitié pour Achille talon    13    1976     
> Dargaud    "sur la couverture ""une histoire du journal  
> tintin"""            '
>
> This is ok!
>
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>
> Now I'm trying to use MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream as follow
>
> |stream |
> stream := MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream on: self  
> completeWithTabbingLinesWithAccents encoding: 'mac-roman'.
> self assert: (stream upTo:  Character cr) = ' '
>
> when I do
> stream contents I got '' while there is a collection...
>
> It seems that the stream once instantiated is at the end. (readLimit  
> is 0 when the instance is created)
>
> How can I say to the stream to be at the start. I tried reset,  
> resetAtStart without success
> when in an inspector I copy the writeLimit to the readLimit then  
> upTo: works perfectly.
>
> Is it a bug?
>
> I added
>
> MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream>>atStart
>
>     readLimit := writeLimit.
>     position := 0.
>
> and it works but this seems to me quite strange that I cannot open a  
> MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream
> in read and be at the beginning of the stream
>
> Stef
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