converting text to dos format

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Richard,

I don't know how you are uploading the data to the remote server, but 
probably you don't need to use "binfile". Just use macToIso to convert 
the data, replace cr with crlf and upload your data.

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On 8/25/2013 23:12, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Mark Schonewille
> <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>> 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"
>
> It's not so much not on macos, but that this runs on macos, but the
> remote system apparently expects dos (I *assume* they actually run
> unix, but the thing is so sloppy that a server on windows wouldn't
> surprise me . . .)
>
> My code needs to produce a file that can be sent to this remote system
> regardless of my host os.
>
> So would I use mactoiso & binfile like this on osx and linux, but just
> the filed and file if running on the dark side?
>
>