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+include "fitsio.h"
+
+procedure fsgtbs(iunit,frow,fchar,nchars,svalue,status)
+
+# read a consecutive string of characters from an ascii or binary
+# table. This will span multiple rows of the table if NCHARS+FCHAR is
+# greater than the length of a row.
+
+int     iunit           # i input file pointer
+int     frow            # i first row
+int     fchar           # i first character
+int     nchars          # i number of characters
+char    svalue[ARB]     # o string value
+%       character fsvalu*256
+int     status          # o error status
+int	readfirst
+int	writefirst
+int	ntodo
+int	itodo
+
+begin
+
+# since the string may be arbitrarily long, read it in pieces
+readfirst=fchar
+writefirst=1
+ntodo=nchars
+itodo=min(256,ntodo)
+
+while (itodo > 0) {
+  call ftgtbs(iunit,frow,readfirst,itodo,fsvalu,status)
+  call fsupk(fsvalu,svalue[writefirst],itodo)
+  writefirst=writefirst+itodo
+  readfirst=readfirst+itodo
+  ntodo=ntodo-itodo
+  itodo=min(256,ntodo)
+ }
+
+end