There's not global efun read_bytes() in Pike 7.0. It seems however that the Pike 7.4 compat Stdio module didn't compile.
/ Henrik Grubbström (Lysator)
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2004-04-11 19:03: Subject: read_bytes regression
pike -V7.0 removes Stdio.read_bytes() but does not readd the global read_bytes().
/ Peter Bortas (Kein Paket!)