mgetl - read lines from an ascii file
mgetl function allows to read a lines from an ascii file.
If m is omitted or is -1 all lines till end of file occurs are read.
If m is given mgetl tries to read exactly m lines, if an end of file occurs before m lines are read an error is issued. This option is useful to sequentialy read part of a file as follow
mgetl allows to read files coming from Unix, Windows, or Mac operating systems.
mgetl('SCI/scilab.star',5) mgetl SCI/macros/elem/erf.sci fd=mopen('SCI/scilab.star','r') mgetl(fd,10) mclose(fd)