Export Syntax

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Fri Jul 27 08:57:16 PDT 2007


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> I am exporting an ascii file on a SCO Unix system.  The file will
> actually be used on a windows system so I want the record separator to
> be a CR/LF.  
> 
> I'm using:
> 
> 	export ascii banner=(mv) r=chr("10")&chr("13") f=, o=" c="
> 
> but that bombs on syntax check.
> 
> How do I tell fp to use CR/LF as record separator?

I was told that you can only use single-byte separators in export and
import, so the answer would appear to be, "You can't."

TTBOMK, you need to use open/writeline/close instead.  Since writeline will
append its own \n, just make sure you toss in a \r at the end of your line
contents.

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