[plt-scheme] Help on newline when writing to a file

That is a simple solution that worked like a charm. My windows-based
students thank you (as well as myself). :-)

Cheers,

Marco

On Jan 16, 2008 3:24 PM, Chongkai Zhu <czhu at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Try using
>
> (define file (open-output-file "test.txt" 'text))
>
> Chongkai
>
>
> Marco Morazan wrote:
> > I have the following code:
> >
> > (define file (open-output-file "test.txt"))
> >
> > (newline file)
> > (display 5 file)
> > (display '#\newline file)
> > (display 4 file)
> >
> > (close-output-port file)
> >
> > When I open test.txt with notepad the newlines are displayed as little
> > rectangles (i.e. rectangle 5 rectangle 4 ) -- no spaces all on the
> > same line. Opening with wordpad gives me the expected display. What is
> > going on here?
> >
> > I am using Windows XP.
> >
> > One more note, when I copy and paste from notepad to this message the result is:
> >
> > 5
> > 4
> >
> > There is probably a trivial answer..........
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Marco
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 9, 2008 9:23 PM, Lian DanHui <linda.lian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry, my mistake. The error is caused by not opening file in Text Mode.
> >>
> >> Thanks again for all your valuable information.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1/10/08, Lian DanHui <linda.lian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks all for your clarification on the line break!
> >>>
> >>> Now I find why I cannot see the line break in txt file.
> >>>
> >>> In Windows XP, I use windows Notepad to open the txt file.  And I cannot
> >>>
> >> see the line break.
> >>
> >>> Then I use gvim or windows Wordpad to open the txt file. And I can see the
> >>>
> >> line break.
> >>
> >>> I guess that NotePad didn't explain the line break well.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 1/9/08, Dave Gurnell <d.j.gurnell at gmail.com > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>>> Is there call for a platform specific line break escape here?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> I think that's best left to the port mode.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Okay - I understand now. That makes a lot of sense.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers!
> >>>>
> >>>> -- Dave
> >>>>
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