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RE: Problem with binary files

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Apr 30, 2001
• 490 views

Thanks a lot. It was not part of the problem, but *the* problem. Sometimes
one has to read the reference manual completely. Of course, I knew that #0D
#0A was \r\n, but I was unaware of the several open() formats.
----- Original Message -----
From: Travis Beaty <travisbeaty at arn.net>
Subject: Re: Problem with binary files


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> Howdy!
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> Part of your program may be that you are not opening the file as a binary
file.  The combination
> #0A#0D is "\r\n."  Instead of
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>  f = open("zz", "w")
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> try
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>  f = open("zz", "wb")
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> and see if that gets its act straight.
>
> -- Travis --
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> 4/28/2001 10:43:32 PM, rforno at tutopia.com wrote:
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> >I am working in a program that generates MIDI files. After getting
strange
> >results, I traced the problem to the puts() command. It keeps generating
#0D
> >characters before each #0A. The program was run under DOS under Windows
98.
> >The reduced test program is very simple:
> >procedure test()
> >    integer f
> >    sequence s
> >    f = open("zz", "w")
> >    s = {}
> >    for i = 0 to 2 do
> >         for j = 0 to 255 do
> >             s &= j
> >         end for
> >    end for
> >    puts(f, s)
> >    close(f)
> >end procedure
> >test()
> >I am attaching the output of this program.
> >Does anybody know how to get rid of the extraneous #0D characters?
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