Hello and thanks to all who replied to my posting. Unfortunately, I have still not found the solution to my question. The scenario is: Students take a test. A text file containing both a printout of the test and students' answers and scores is uploaded. I had originally planned to physically move these files from the server to my harddisk to have a look at the results, but then I found that the files can just as well be read in a browser by the various teachers. Extensive testing has showed the following:
A textfile (not converted in any way) uploaded via ftp from Mac with extension ".txt" or nothing: 1) When the ftp-url is opened in Netscape on Macos 8.6 only approx. 10 (the last) lines of the file is visible. Specific symbols (as German Umlaut, French accented letters, Norwegian letters etc.) are NOT displayed correctly. 2) When the ftp-url is opened in Explorer on Windows 2000 all lines in the file are visible. However, specific symbols are NOT displayed correctly. A textfile (converted with mactoiso) uploaded via ftp from Mac with extension ".txt" or nothing: 1) When the ftp-url is opened in Netscape on Macos 8.6 only approx. 10 (the last) lines of the file are visible. Specific symbols are now displayed correctly. 2) When the ftp-url is opened in Explorer on Windows 2000 everything shows correctly! So, if the professors all use Windows I can live with this, but we have quite a number of Mac users at the Faculty... In order to solve my original question I have tried (still on Mac): put fld myField into temp repeat with i = 1 to number of lines of temp put line i of temp & numtochar(13) into line i of nytemp end repeat put nytemp into url path... When I open this file (not in a browser) the lines are as they should, specific symbols are all there, there remains just a single box in front of all lines from line 2 onwards. However, in Netscape on Mac it still displays just 10 lines. On Windows in Explorer the file is readable but without the specific symbols. Question to you: if I want to replace or find out about CR and LF, how do I proceed in Metacard? Last char of a line will render the chartonum (last char) which is the actual (visible) last letter in a string. Thanks again to all of you. -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutt tel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
