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Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> writes:

> Is it possible to do File I/O with elisp.
>   (as opposed to reading it into a buffer)
>
> IOWS: read a file
>       process stream a line at a time
> 	  process programmatically

See `insert-file-contents' which can extract just parts from a file
into a buffer.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum