Export file and the use of Append -a

[Dennis Malen]

To Bob Stockler,

I'm putting this on the list as when I try to send an e-mail directly to you
I get:

Mail delivery failed; returning message to sender. You reject my e-mail.

Do you have any idea on how to fix that.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stockler" <bob at trebor.iglou.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: Export file and the use of Append -a


> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:43:39PM -0400, Ken Brody wrote:
> | Bob Stockler wrote:
> | [...]
> | >   Then: fi = "/tmp/fixed_length_ascii.txt"
> | >   Then: export ascii out=(fi) -a
> | >   Then: out(1) = 1 & 3 & 5 & 10 & 12 & "\n"
> |
> | ITYM:
> |
> |    Then: out(1) = 1 & 3 & 5 & 10 & 12 & chr("10")
> |
> | (Unless you want the literal backslash-en to be exported?)
>
> Yeah, thanks.  It's been a while since I've used EXPORT,
> and my habit then had been to set nl(1,*,g) = chr("10")
> in the subroutine that initialized the table.
>
> I jes forgot.
>
> | > On Windows you'd want to end the assignment to out(1) with:
> | >
> | >   & "\r" { "\n".
> |
> | Not necessary, as EXPORT ASCII already does the NL-->CRLF translation,
> | just as IMPORT ASCII does CRLF-->NL.
>
> There I was just ignorant.  I'm not a Windows f^Hman.
>
> Bob
>
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