Subj : Mystic Program Question
To   : g00r00
From : Mike Fenton
Date : Fri Jan 06 2023 12:50 pm

On 05 Jan 2023, g00r00 said the following...
 
 g0>  MF> I did attempt to write this to a file using appendtext and when I did
 g0>  MF> this way, the information contained in the bat file was also cut off.
 g0>  MF> wasn't passing all the information. Seemed like a limit there too....
 g0> 
 g0> Yep AppendText would have the same limit.  Strings in MPL are limited to
 g0> 255 characters everywhere.
 g0> 
 g0> To do it in MPL you have to break it up into small chunks and then write
 g0> it to the file.  Here is a quick example I whipped up for you (you could
 g0> also check the OSID function and make it create a .sh in Unix and .bat
 g0> in Windows):
 g0> 
 g0> Uses CFG
 g0> 
 g0> Var
 g0>   F         : File;
 g0>   Cmd1      : String;
 g0>   Cmd2      : String;
 g0>   Cmd3      : String;
 g0>   BatchName : String;
 g0> Begin
 g0>   Cmd1 := 'REM This is the first part of a long command. ';
 g0>   Cmd2 := 'And this is part two of a long commmand. ';
 g0>   Cmd3 := 'And this is part three of a long command';
 g0> 
 g0>   Write   ('Command line: ');
 g0>   Write   (Cmd1)
 g0>   Write   (Cmd2)
 g0>   WriteLn (Cmd3)
 g0> 
 g0>   fAssign   (F, CfgTempPath + 'mybat.bat', 66);
 g0>   fReWrite  (F);
 g0>   fWriteStr (F, Cmd1);
 g0>   fWriteStr (F, Cmd2);
 g0>   fWriteLn  (F, Cmd3);
 g0>   fClose    (F);
 g0> 
 g0>   WriteLn ('Batch file created. Press any key to execute and delete:
 g0> |PN');   
 g0>   MenuCmd('DD', CfgTempPath + 'mybat.bat');
 g0> 
 g0>   FileErase (CfgTempPath + 'mybat.bat');
 g0> End.
 g0> 

This worked great! Thanks. 

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