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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> 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.