Export ASCII -x
Bruce Easton
bruce at stn.com
Fri Nov 19 10:38:34 PST 2010
On 11/19/10 12:48 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 10:58 AM, Bruce Easton wrote:
>> OK - that's all fine and dandy, *BUT*, after re-reading what Nancy had
>> written below,
>> I now wonder if there is a difference between my fp 5.0.14 and whatever
>> version she is using or maybe it could be *nix vs. windows for the
>> results I got for putting r=\n after the -X (which didn't work in that
>> order for me whereas it seems to have worked for her on her line 330
>> shown below).
> I would have thought, and this agrees with what you just pointed out the
> manual says, that "-X", without any "r=", should result in NO record
> delimiter, no LF or CR, just like a filepro key file.
>
Yes - it definitely does. But in the part of my reply (to myself) that
you cut above, I had tested:
r=\n -X
verses
-X r=\n
where, in the latter case, for me on Linux fp5.0.14, the r=\n was
ignored, whereas Nancy's code shown with that same order worked for her.
Bruce
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