CR vs LF. How a new line is exported by the TEXT I/O Add-on

[Anonymous]

I'm developing a script to write BTL files to program a CNC machine. The text files I export look fine on a Mac in TextEdit, but when I open them on a PC in Notepad, there are no line breaks.

Wikipedia tells me that there are two different ASCII codes used: 10=LF=Line Feed, and 13=CR=Carriage Return.

"Windows and OS/2 require the sequence CR,LF to represent a newline, while Unix and relatives use just the LF, and Classic Mac OS (but not Mac OS X) uses just the code CR."

ArchiCAD seems to be outputting only one of these characters, it's not creating the correct line breaks on the PC platform. (And I've tried it from ArchiCAD in OS 10.8, OS 10.9 and Win7.)

I've also tried using "Separator='\r\n' " as part of the OPEN command, but so far without any improvement.

Does anyone know how to get it to output CR,LF?

[Ben Cohen]

Hi Rhonie

Did you have any success with the line endings?

[Anonymous]

I haven't had any joy yet. Do you have the magic bullet?

[Ben Cohen]

no sorry. I was hoping you found an answer
I have tried a few work arounds but nothing has worked.

[Matthew Johnson]

Rhonie,

If it is just viewing the file that is the issue have you tried using Wordpad or MS Word rather than Notepad? The newer programs (incl MS Excel) will read the variants of the line break correctly.

I suppose it depends on what your passing the file to as your next step towards the CNC machine.