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>> But this requires progressive reading of an input
>> file, one line at a time, on demand.  Can TeX be
>> made to do this efficiently?

I'm not sure what the key issue is here.  In what way is TeX's
present \openin ... \read ... \closein mechanism deficient?

** Phil.