cr and return

[erik hansen]

--- Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:
> erik hansen wrote:
> 
> > so, there are no cross platform problems
> > with using either return or cr?
> 
> Only when a file has been opened for binary
> read/write.  It's not
> necessarily a problem, but if you're writing a
> text file to be read by
> another program you'll probably want to open
> the file in the default text
> mode rather than binary.
> 
> But yes, "cr" and "return" are synonyms.

thanks, that clears things up.

an eventual goal is to generate ASCII files
that can be read by sequencers. there are some
stacks which will soon appear as links on my
RunRev Fanzine page. this might be a case where
"binary read/write" is involved.

Erik

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