To take in one line at a time rather than a whole. Reading in pieces so the whole need never be held at once.
A GNU software name from 1989, a fused compound of read and line; readline names the practice of taking input one line at a time so the whole never has to be held in memory at once.
To take in one line at a time rather than a whole. Reading in pieces so nothing has to be held all at once, exactly as its plain compound name says.