Thanks Chris,

I saw the CRLF stream but figured there was some magic way to get the file to use it. I saw ascii and all those flags for #crlf and wantsEndConversion or something like that but nothing worked.

I'm surprised at how few file writing and reading methods there are. I tried to add some collection methods earlier and was told there were already too many methods on collection. In VW I had outputToFilename: on string and on collection (created as string with a cr between each item). Also outputToFilenameUsingBlock: , not to mention toClipboard. I would think it would be nice to add those methods. How do people feel about adding those methods before I post a patch that only spawns arguments?

Thanks,

Ron Teitelbaum

-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev- bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Chris Muller Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:02 PM To: Ron@USMedRec.com; The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: CR LF Problem in Windows XP

Hi Ron, I think CRLFFileStream can detect the underlying platform and write CRLF's appropriately..

dir := FileDirectory default. fileStream := CrLfFileStream fileNamed: (dir fullNameFor: 'test.txt'). [ fileStream nextPutAll: 'a\b' withCRs. fileStream flush; close ] ensure: [ fileStream close ]

• Chris

--- Ron Teitelbaum Ron@USMedRec.com wrote:

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All,

On WinXP

Image: Squeak 3.8-6665

dir := FileDirectory default.

(fileStream := dir fileNamed: 'test.txt') ascii.

fileStream nextPutAll: 'a\b' withCRs.

fileStream flush; close.

I get in bytes in hex 61 OD 62. I need 61 OA OD 62.

I wanted to make sure that this is a bug and not just me doing something wrong.

Is there a proper way to get this to work?

Thanks,

Ron Teitelbaum

Ron@USMedRec.com

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I went back to see what I did. I only set

lineEndConvention: #crlf.

But then saw the wantsLineEndConversion: wasn't set. So I figured I was doing it wrong. Shouldn't this be automatic for each platform?

I'll try just setting wantsLineEndConversion: true like you suggested and see what it does.

Ron Teitelbaum

-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev- bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Yoshiki Ohshima Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:57 PM To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: CR LF Problem in Windows XP

Ron,

...

I saw the CRLF stream but figured there was some magic way to get the

file

...

to use it. I saw ascii and all those flags for #crlf and

wantsEndConversion

...

or something like that but nothing worked.

Didn't a code snippet like following work?

f _ FileStream newFileNamed: 'foo.txt'. f wantsLineEndConversion: true. f nextPutAll: 'abc\def' withCRs f close.

To specify it explicitly:

f _ FileStream newFileNamed: 'foo.txt'. f wantsLineEndConversion: true. f lineEndConvention: #crlf. f nextPutAll: 'abc\def' withCRs. f close.

should work, too.

-- Yoshiki

Yoshiki,

Don't you think it should set this automatically for Windows systems? The method I would like to see is 'this/that' withCRs toFilename: 'test.txt'. Or (Array with: this with: that) toFilename: 'test.txt'. It should set #crlf automatically for windows systems.

Ron

From: Yoshiki Ohshima Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:58 AM

Ron,

...

I went back to see what I did. I only set

lineEndConvention: #crlf.

But then saw the wantsLineEndConversion: wasn't set. So I figured I was doing it wrong. Shouldn't this be automatic for each platform?

Note that the instance creation methods of CrLfFileStream and FileStream both creates an instance of MultiByteFileStream with different initial setting. When creating an instance through CrLfFileStream, it should set automatically, but through FileStream, it shouldn't.

-- Yoshiki