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Subject: Is it possible to redirect text output to a String or Unbounded_String?
From: Jerry <list_email@icloud.com>
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Is it possible to redirect text output to a String or Unbounded_String rather than to a file?

I know there are versions of Put that take a string as a first argument but I don't want to have to write a special-purpose version of a stretch of code just for this purpose, since I want to keep the ability to also output text to a terminal.

I suppose I could redirect text to a file and then somehow read it back in as one string but that seems like a kludge.

Jerry