Re: new_line in a put_line

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> There is no one llne terminator used by all operating systems. The
> Microsoft OS's use the character sequence (ASCII.CR, ASCII.LF) to end
> a line. The Mac OS uses ASCII.CR. And VMS uses an entirely different
> way of indicating the end of a text line (basically, each line has a
> prefix indicating the number of characters in the line). For this
> reason, there is no guarantee that writing ASCII.LF will create a new
> line on all platforms. The right way to get a new line is to call
> New_Line.

It works in Linux, the rest is left for a task for the reader ;-) The
point is that if the OS is not specified I assume they use the same as I
do. :-)

> Of course, this does not in and of itself solve the poster's original
> problem, but as indicated elsewhere in this thread, the right solution
> is to use a separate task or protected object for writing to the file.

I misunderstood the original question. I assumed he used a protected
object.

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