[PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
I am looking for a way of reading/writing strings (as defined by the string2any and any2string externals) to the hard disk. Is there already an implementation anywhere (maybe I will adapt textfile or msgfile)? The reason is I want to bypass the limitations imposed by pd's special characters so I

Re: [PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Martin Peach
Thomas O Fredericks wrote: I am looking for a way of reading/writing strings (as defined by the string2any and any2string externals) to the hard disk. Is there already an implementation anywhere (maybe I will adapt textfile or msgfile)? The reason is I want to bypass the limitations imposed by

Re: [PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Hi again Martin, Hum , the output file is a binary. I don't think I was very clear: I need a way to write a text file from PD BUT the input and output is in ASCII code. For example. from pd, I would send add 97 32 98 32 99 and when I would write the file, the contents could be viewed with a text

Re: [PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
Hum, I just loaded the file created with binfile inside textfile and it works like I want. But how do I make the system recognize the file as a text file? TOm On 10/11/07, Thomas O Fredericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again Martin, Hum , the output file is a binary. I don't think I was

Re: [PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
HA HA, I found the glitch. any2string adds a terminating 0 (zero) to the list of chars. When I remove that offending character the file is properly recognized by my gnome editor. Excellent, thanks again Martin. Now, if we could solve the comport problem :) Tom On 10/11/07, Martin Peach [EMAIL

Re: [PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

2007-10-11 Thread Martin Peach
Thomas O Fredericks wrote: Hum, I just loaded the file created with binfile inside textfile and it works like I want. But how do I make the system recognize the file as a text file? On most systems, just make sure the last 4 characters of the file name are .txt. Martin