Re: new_line in a put_line

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>]

"Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrnaumb0a.en.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no...
> Vlad wrote:
> Either use ASCII.LF
>
> Like
>
> Put ("Hello Word" & ASCII.LF & "Anybody out there?" & ASCII.LF);
>
> or <snip>

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.

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.