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From: Bradley Pick <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Reading and Writing Line by Line
Date: 7 May 1995 18:43:13 GMT
Organization: National Research Council, Canada
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Using Ms-dos kermit 3.14 I have a script that reads specific lines
from one file and then writes it to second file line by line.
Sometimes my main text file will contain lines that end with a
hyphen ("-") and as a result when I start to read and write the lines
one by one I get an error when I encounter any lines that end with
a hyphen (-) The error say "TEXT EXCEEDED AVAILABLE BUFFER CAPACITY"
"WORD XXXX IS NOT USABLE HERE". I know that the hypen means to treat
the line and the line below it as one continuing line. But how do I
tell kermit to ignore what that hypen(-) means and to treat each line
individually so I can read line by line.

Thanks
Brad