From: nospam.Mike.Fenton@f310.n229.z1.fidonet.org   
      
   On 05 Jan 2023, g00r00 said the following...   
      
    g0>  MF> I did attempt to write this to a file using appendtext and when I did   
    g0>  MF> this way, the information contained in the bat file was also cut off.   
    g0>  MF> wasn't passing all the information. Seemed like a limit there too....   
    g0>   
    g0> Yep AppendText would have the same limit.  Strings in MPL are limited to   
    g0> 255 characters everywhere.   
    g0>   
    g0> To do it in MPL you have to break it up into small chunks and then write   
    g0> it to the file.  Here is a quick example I whipped up for you (you could   
    g0> also check the OSID function and make it create a .sh in Unix and .bat   
    g0> in Windows):   
    g0>   
    g0> Uses CFG   
    g0>   
    g0> Var   
    g0>   F         : File;   
    g0>   Cmd1      : String;   
    g0>   Cmd2      : String;   
    g0>   Cmd3      : String;   
    g0>   BatchName : String;   
    g0> Begin   
    g0>   Cmd1 := 'REM This is the first part of a long command. ';   
    g0>   Cmd2 := 'And this is part two of a long commmand. ';   
    g0>   Cmd3 := 'And this is part three of a long command';   
    g0>   
    g0>   Write   ('Command line: ');   
    g0>   Write   (Cmd1)   
    g0>   Write   (Cmd2)   
    g0>   WriteLn (Cmd3)   
    g0>   
    g0>   fAssign   (F, CfgTempPath + 'mybat.bat', 66);   
    g0>   fReWrite  (F);   
    g0>   fWriteStr (F, Cmd1);   
    g0>   fWriteStr (F, Cmd2);   
    g0>   fWriteLn  (F, Cmd3);   
    g0>   fClose    (F);   
    g0>   
    g0>   WriteLn ('Batch file created. Press any key to execute and delete:   
    g0> |PN');   
    g0>   MenuCmd('DD', CfgTempPath + 'mybat.bat');   
    g0>   
    g0>   FileErase (CfgTempPath + 'mybat.bat');   
    g0> End.   
    g0>   
      
   This worked great! Thanks.   
      
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