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added a warning concerning cross-platform workings of teachpack

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Matthias Felleisen 2011-08-23 13:46:28 -04:00
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The batch-io teachpack introduces several functions and a form for reading
content from files and one function for writing to a file.
@; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@section{IO Functions}
All functions that read a file consume the name of a file and possibly
additional arguments. They assume that the specified file exists in the
same folder as the program; if not they signal an error:
@ -148,6 +151,17 @@ There is only one writer function at the moment:
(with-handlers ([exn:fail:filesystem? void])
(delete-file "output.txt")))
@bold{Warning}: The file IO functions in this teachpack are platform
dependent. That is, as long as your programs and your files live on the
same platform, you should not have any problems reading the files that
programs wrote and vice versa. If, however, one of your programs writes a
file on a Windows operating system and if you then copy this output file
to a Mac, reading the copied text file may produce extraneous ``return''
characters. Note that this describes only one example of possible
malfunction; there are other cases when trans-platform actions may cause
this teachpack to fail.
@; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@section{Testing}
@defform[(simulate-file process str ...)]{