converting text to dos format

[Mark Schonewille]

Richard,

When not on Mac OS X, you need to replace linefeed with crlf, convert 
text to ISO and write the file as binfile, e.g.

put fld 1 into myVar
put macToIso(myVar) into myVar
replace lf with crlf in myVar
put myVar into url "binfile:~/desktop/file.txt"

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On 8/25/2013 22:46, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> Apparently, the ECF filing system used by federal courts expects the
> whole world to be in dos format.
>
> When I write a file from livecode on OSX, and then upload that file,
> ECF fails to recognize that there is more than one line (but when I
> dump from openoffice, I'm fine).
>
> I need to override the behavior of accommodating the host filesystem
> in livecode, and dumping exactly what that idiotic system expects.
>
> would it be something like
>
>      replace cr with cr & lf
>
> (where I first define as ascii 10)?
>
> Or with lf & cr?
>
> It's been a *long* time since I've dealt with dos, or dos filesystem
> for anything other than going back and forth between BSD and Linux
> (historically, both do quiet damages to the other's file system)
>
> thanks
>