Dear,
In an earlier edition of Ruud's manual (= KiXtart 4.10) you can read as remark on Open function
quote:
The file-I/O functions in KiXtart (OPEN, READLINE, and CLOSE) process small configuration files. They are not intended for larger operations, such as scanning long files. For the sake of simplicity and speed, OPEN reads an entire ASCII file into memory, and subsequent READLINE commands read lines stored in memory.
Although this design is memory-intensive, it is also very fast and simple.
greetings.
