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    non-whitespace.  Continuation lines where the only non-whitespace
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    non-whitespace.  Continuation lines where the only non-whitespace
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    character is a \samp{.} are taken as blank lines (allowing for
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    character is a \samp{.} are taken as blank lines (allowing for
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    multi-paragraph field values).
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    multi-paragraph field values).
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    \item Records are separated by one or more empty (i.e., whitespace
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    \item Records are separated by one or more empty (i.e., whitespace
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    only) lines.
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    only) lines.
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    \item Individual lines may not be arbitrarily long; currently the
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    length limit is approximately 8192 bytes per line.
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  }
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  }
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  Note that \code{read.dcf(all = FALSE)} reads the file byte-by-byte.
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  Note that \code{read.dcf(all = FALSE)} reads the file byte-by-byte.
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  This allows a \file{DESCRIPTION} file to be read and only its ASCII
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  This allows a \file{DESCRIPTION} file to be read and only its ASCII
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  fields used, or its \samp{Encoding} field used to re-encode the
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  fields used, or its \samp{Encoding} field used to re-encode the