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From: [e-mail] (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Reading and Writing Line by Line
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Date: 7 May 95 14:02:04 MDT
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In article <3oj4c1$[e-mail]>, Bradley Pick <[e-mail]> writes:
> 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.
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    Well, as they say, "don't do that." Instead end the line with
something else, say a space after your hyphen. There is no way of turning
off line continuation with a trailing hyphen.
    Joe D.