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+# Copyright(c) 1986 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc.
+
+include <nmi.h>
+
+# NMIREADC -- Read a block of character data stored externally in NMI format.
+# Data is returned in the native machine character format.
+
+int procedure nmi_readc (fd, spp, maxchars)
+
+int	fd			# input file
+int	spp[ARB]		# receives data
+int	maxchars		# max number of chars to be read
+
+pointer	sp, bp
+int	pksize, nchars
+int	nmipksize(), nminelem(), read()
+errchk	read()
+
+long	note()
+
+begin
+	pksize = nmipksize (maxchars, NMI_BYTE)
+	nchars = max (maxchars, pksize)
+
+	if (nchars > maxchars) {
+	    # Read data into local buffer and unpack into user buffer.
+
+	    call smark (sp)
+	    call salloc (bp, nchars, TY_CHAR)
+
+	    nchars = read (fd, Memc[bp], pksize)
+	    if (nchars != EOF) {
+		nchars = min (maxchars, nminelem (nchars, NMI_BYTE))
+		call nmiupk8 (Memc[bp], spp, nchars, TY_CHAR)
+	    }
+
+	    call sfree (sp)
+	
+	} else {
+	    # Read data into user buffer and unpack in place.
+
+	    nchars = read (fd, spp, pksize)
+	    if (nchars != EOF) {
+		nchars = min (maxchars, nminelem (nchars, NMI_BYTE))
+		call nmiupk8 (spp, spp, nchars, TY_CHAR)
+	    }
+	}
+
+	return (nchars)
+end