Colleagues

I have just encountered an interesting problem with readLines in R  
2.7.0 in Windows Vista.  I am trying to read a line that is created in  
the following manner:
	1.  Intel Fortran (ifort) 10.1 creates two text files.
	2.  The OS concatenates these files with: 	copy FILE1 +FILE2 FILE3
 From R, I execute:	readLines("FILE3")
Only the first portion of the file (the original FILE1) is read - the  
remainder is ignored and there is no error message.

When I open FILE3 with Notepad, it shows all the text; however,  
between the material originating from FILE1 and FILE2, there is a  
single character - a right-pointing arrow.  When I open the file with  
vi in Windows (installed under ssh), it shows ^Z.  When I open the  
file with a hex editor (after having moved the file to a Mac), it  
shows that this character is 1A.

I can get around the problem by working with the files separately.   
However, this is not optimal.  Is there a work-around that enables me  
to read this file (and ignore the offending character)?

Dennis



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