1. file numbers, puts, seek and NT 4
I suppose its written down somewhere, but with the following program, gday.ex,
puts( 1, "G'day mate, 'owyergoin?" )
in Windows NT 4.0, repetitively executing
ex gday >> gday.log
does not build up a file full of G'day's. Rather the puts simply writes the file
with a single line over and over again. If you want the append to occur you have
to rewrite the program as
seek( 1, -1 )
puts( 1, "G'day mate, 'owyergoin?" )
and then it will work as expected. This does not appear to be the case under
Windows 95 or MSDOS. This is a hidden gotcha. Either that or I have finally gone
round the twist. If its the latter, I can cope with the embarrassment. If the
former, the documentation better say something about it.
Bruce.
2. Re: file numbers, puts, seek and NT 4
Try putting a +AFw-n newline at the end of the string.
puts( 1, "G'day mate, 'owyergoin?+AFw-n" )
I think I've encountered that before, in NT.
Greg
Bruce M. Axtens wrote:
> I suppose its written down somewhere, but with the following program, gday.ex,
>
> puts( 1, "G'day mate, 'owyergoin?" )
>
> in Windows NT 4.0, repetitively executing
>
> ex gday >> gday.log
>
> does not build up a file full of G'day's. Rather the puts simply writes the
> file
> with a single line over and over again. If you want the append to occur you
> have
> to rewrite the program as
>
> seek( 1, -1 )
> puts( 1, "G'day mate, 'owyergoin?" )
>
> and then it will work as expected. This does not appear to be the case under
> Windows 95 or MSDOS. This is a hidden gotcha. Either that or I have finally
> gone
> round the twist. If its the latter, I can cope with the embarrassment. If the
> former, the documentation better say something about it.
>
> Bruce.
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3. Re: file numbers, puts, seek and NT 4
Greg Phillips wrote on Fri, 23 Apr 1999:
>Try putting a +AFw-n newline at the end of the string.
>puts( 1, "G'day mate, 'owyergoin?+AFw-n" )
>
>I think I've encountered that before, in NT.
>
Eeek! Where's that in the documentation, Rob! Whew, so I don't have a kangaroo
loose in the top paddock after all.
Bruce.
