Re: Save selected DF block to file without EOF marker?

[russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Robert,

Wow! that did the trick!!

Thanks.

So, does this mean that Doc Info was designed to be set once, the first time?

Seems like kind of a bug, that changing the value later, would have no effect.

Thanks again to you, Carl, and Leslie!

Thanks guys!!

Russ


> ** Reply to message from russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx on Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:36:47
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> > While, prior to asking this question the first time, I DID have IO=1 in my
> > settings file, I have long since changed that and restarted my machine, and am
> > still getting the junk at the bottom of the file.
>
> Uh huh. Well, I get the same result as Russ. (Not really,
> because who uses DocInfo anyway? But I can reproduce his
> result.)
>
> If you _create_ a file for the first time when DocInfo=On
> (VA[$]IO=1), the document in question will continue to append
> the DocInfo whether DocInfo is On or Off (1 or 0). You can
> reboot as many times as you want, with IO=0, and you'll
> still be saddled with DocInfo. (Conversely, if you create
> a doc with IO=0, then turn DocInfo on with IO=1, you
> nevertheless won't ever be able to append DocInfo. It's the
> conditions of creation that matter.)
>
> There are two ways to remove DocInfo. Create a new document
> when IO=0, copy the data from the old DocInfo'd document
> into the new document, then erase the original, and (if you
> want) REName to get back to the original filename sans
> DocInfo.
>
> More revealing is to understand how XyWrite recognizes a
> document that _should_ have DocInfo. First, ABORT THE FILE
> (very important!) in XyWrite, then set DEFAULT IO=0. Open
> the file in Notepad, and zap all the characters after the
> _first_ EOF char (there are two such EOF chars). Overwrite
> them with spaces, or just delete them. To be specific, its
> the last 10 or so characters that are crucial, starting with
> a lone carriage return, another EOF, and then some quotes
> and 254s etc. Replace them all with spaces or delete them.
> SAVE the file in Notepad! Then CAll the document in
> XyWrite, make an edit, SAve it, and -- presto, no more
> DocInfo, not ever.
>
> Those last few characters serve as the control codes that
> XyWrite looks for, when determining whether or not a file
> requires DocInfo -- not all the appended LaBels  etc,
> they're the Info itself, not the control.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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