Re: Writing Binary Files, Data Code Limitations, and Unicode Tables (not necessarily in that order)
Re: Writing Binary Files, Data Code Limitations, and Unicode Tables (not necessarily in that order)
- Subject: Re: Writing Binary Files, Data Code Limitations, and Unicode Tables (not necessarily in that order)
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:29:48 -0800
At 12:55p -0800 11/20/2003, Michael Terry didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
Hello,
Has anyone ever noticed that you can't compile data codes with 'run
script' if the number of characters in the string is too big? And
too big isn't even all that big. I can't compile
set d to "+data data0000;"
run script d
if I add enough zeros to make 'd' longer than 266 characters. "Way
too long, dude." I've wondered if that's one of Jon Pugh's...
Anyway, the reason I ask is because I was trying to write some data
to file, and it would go a lot faster if I didn't have to keep
stopping every so often to compile tiny little chunks of data.
Unfortunately, I can't see any way to write binary data to a file
other than assembling it via 'run script' first. Are there other
options?
You see why I lament the loss of the Programmer's Tool, which worked
very nicely in Mac OS but fails on OS X (and its developer is M.I.A.).
Can no one give us definable coercions in OS X?
-boo hoo
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