Jerry Fochtman ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
 
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: Given Jim's [Wowchuk] program, Richard [Gambrell] had solved his problem.
: But it occurred to
: me that perhaps others may have a need to do this and don't have access to
: "C". I seemed to recall that you could achieve the same by specifying %320
: as the carriage control value in FWRITE with CCTL enabled. It's been
: sometime since I've done this so I did a quick test using $STDLIST as the
: output device and my successive FWRITEs appeared on the same line following
: one another without the <cr><lf>.  I haven't confirmed, but perhaps the
: same would work to a printer....  :-)
 
This is correct.  I've written such a program (in Pascal).
 
: By the way, without enabling CCTL, I believe the file system ignores any
: carriage-control directives given in the FWRITE.
 
This is my understanding as well, but it doesn't mean you get no carriage
control (as in %320), it just means you can't specify it in FWRITE.  The
file system generates an internal code which results in a <cr><lf>.
 
-Larry "MPE/iX Spoolers 'R' Us" Byler-