Hi everyone, I am using the function "open-output-file" in conjunction with "copy-port" to take incoming data from a TCP port and write it to a file, but I am running into an issue. In my code, I offer the user the option of saving the file by means of "binary" or "ASCII," the first meaning that data is written exactly as it is received, and the latter meaning that the incoming data is (most likely) a text file that should be converted from one OS format to another (i.e., a file from *nix will have LF for line termination, and it must be converted to CRLF if being sent to Windows).
open-output-file offers the option #:mode that lets me specify either 'text (for ASCII mode) or 'binary (for, you know). Naturally, using 'binary produces the exact result I want, but using 'text is not converting the line terminators the way I want. For instance, if the incoming text is: this is line one[CRLF] this is line two[CRLF] this is line three then open-output-port will write the data as: this is line one[CRCRLF] this is line two[CRCRLF] this is line three I want it to recognize that it does not have to be converted since it is already in its native format. The same would go for transferring to a *nix machine, where it would not have to convert LF to CRLF. Is there a practical way of doing this (which would work across any platform)? Also, the code above was run under Windows. I have not yet tested under *nix yet. Is this the desired behavior of open-output-file, or is there a function that is more suitable to what I am trying to do? Thanks for your help. Michael Coppola _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
