Re: carriage return & line feeds
Re: carriage return & line feeds
- Subject: Re: carriage return & line feeds
- From: Greg Strange <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:23:49 -0500
on 6/6/01 12:07 PM, Jonathan Neff at email@hidden wrote:
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Hi all,
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I'm writing an inventory report using Apple System Profiler and then I use
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URL Access Scripting to send the outputFile to an FTP location. The
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problem that i am having is that the FTP location is W2K, so the
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end-of-line characters don't work correctly. If I use RETURN to mark the
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end of each line of my file, they will not show up as separate lines on
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the remote server. So, I think I need to add another character to the end
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of my lines so that the lines show up correctly on the remote server.
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I've tried a few things already, but they either wouldn't compile or
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didn't work. Anybody have any ideas on how to accomplish this?
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Currently, I am using a double-tab to mark the end of a line, but I'd
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rather that this be more readable on the W2k end (it doesn't need to be
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nicely readable on the Mac end).
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Thanks!
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Jonathan
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set outputFile "myInventory-inv.log"
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set ftpDest to "ftp://me:myword@FTPServer/users/me/";
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set fileRef to open for access file outputFile with write permission
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write [sometext here] & tab & tab to fileRef
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write [more text here] & tab & tab to fileRef
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close access fileRef
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tell application "URL Access Scripting"
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upload file outputFile to ftpDest replacing yes
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quit application "URL Access Scripting"
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end tell
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Instead fo using return (or in additon to it) use
write myText & (ASCII character 10)
That will put a windows line feed at the end of it.
Hope that helps.
Greg Strange
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