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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Carriage Returns in ascii files
Message-ID: <5434@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Jul 90 11:53:23 GMT
References: <14711@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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In-reply-to: francis@csli.Stanford.EDU (Dave Francis)

In article <14711@csli.Stanford.EDU>, francis@csli (Dave Francis) writes:

>len = 1L;
>err = FSWrite(refNum, &len, "\n");
>
>But instead I get unrecognizable characters (those rectangles)
>instead of carriage returns when I look at the file with TeachText.
>How do I get a real carriage return appended?

Using "\r" should do it.

My understanding (I'm open to correction) is that the ANSI I/O library
stuff in THINK C does \r -> \n conversion on the way in, and \n -> \r
conversion on the way out, so standard C programs can deal with Mac
TEXT files while having lines appear to be \n-delimited. FSWrite
is a toolbox call, and so it's in Mac-land, with explicit \r's
everywhere.

This whole business really is a pain, especially if you want to start
doing things with binary files passed between different hosts.

		Nick.
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