Well the problem in this case is that it's being fetched from various sources on the web so it's not in a file to begin with.
Hey maybe I could use (tmp) to put it in a temporary file and then use that file? It doesn't feel right but should work. /Henrik On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Tomas Hlavaty<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Henrik, > >> To me it seems you need to pass some kind of file name, for instance >> in the app/item.l form, the name of the tempfile. And then the file >> is opened and copied to the blobfile. > > yes, a blob is a file. =A0I think it is stored as a flag indicating it's > presence. =A0If it is present, the function 'blob' will return a > filename where you can find its content. > >> However I simply want to do like this: (put> Article 'body "a really >> long text here, not a file...") and have the text end up in an >> automatically generated blob file. As far as I can see the current >> put> and/or blob! functions working with +Blob can't be made to work >> like this? > > Well, if the text is really "really long" then it probably should not > be represented as a string in the first place. =A0If it is not that > long, I would either use +String instead of +Blob or use +Blob the way > Alex uses it. > > I haven't looked at the sources, but maybe there is a way adding such > abstraction/method as you aim for. > > Cheers, > > Tomas > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=3dunsubscribe > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
