[Info-vax] Basic again

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Mar 11 09:30:54 EDT 2024


On 3/11/2024 9:20 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
> Surely BASIC has its own formatting. Why manually put in control 
> characters to confuse it?
> 
> print "XXX"
> print "YYY"
> print ""
> print "ZZZ"
> 
> will simply give:
> 
> XXX
> YYY
> 
> ZZZ
> 
> if that is what you want

The real context is a CGI script under Apache doing a
redirect.

And it seems like for whatever reasons the writes
(SYS$PUT) does not write CRLF to that whatever type of
connection back to Apache. So for Pascal I put them in manually
and it worked great. But for basic I hit a roadblock.

Arne





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