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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