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Re: [ECS] ECS 101 Mark Gilmore Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:57:30 -0500

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Scott,
Do something like this (but beware of <CR><LF>s in the file):
|	Do	Character		Set		X.TXT
|	WHILE	Character		Is Not		None
|	Do	Text			Set		Character
|	Do	Character		Set		X.TXT
|	ENDWHILE
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip
423-745-0026


Scott Reston wrote:
> 
> hello - need a little basic ECS help. i just can't seem to get all of the synapses
firing correctly...
> 
> i'd like to append text from a file to a text item. i've created a text item to represent
the file and set it's text to @filename.ext
> 
>  to append the info from the file, shouldn't i be able to:
> 
> do      text-item       T1/A->T1 file-representing-text-item
> 
> ??
> 
> when i do, i get the text value of the file-representing item... it basically appends
@filename.ext, rather than the contents of the file...
> 
> thanks!
> 
> scott reston
> ih8gates@concentric.net

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