At 6:12 PM -0700 7/28/2001, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>I am trying to dump text from an MC field to a raw text file which has
>char(10) in all places where we have a "CR" entered under script control.
> [...]
>a \n b \n c \n
>
>But, a routine that saves the field string
>
>a
>b
>c
>
>to a file returns this string in the file:
>
>a \r b \r c \r
>
>When read by a Unix formatter? So, what's up?
When you write a text file, MC auto-converts line endings to the
appropriate ones for the current platform. You need to write a binary file
if you want to keep the line endings intact without translation:
put field "Whatever" into URL "binfile:someFileOrOther.txt"
or
open file "someFileOrOther.txt" for binary write
write field "Whatever" to file "someFileOrOther.txt"
close file "someFileOrOther.txt""
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