On 2006-09-24, at 17:20:10, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:
> I tried with a large text (more than 18000 characters) this script:
>
> tell application "Nisus Writer Express"
> set the_text to selected text of front document
> end tell
>
> do shell script "echo" & space & quoted form of the_text & space &
> "> ~/Desktop/testtext.txt"
>
> This seems to work without problem -- although it adds a
> supplementary LF at the end of the file.
do shell script "echo -n " & quoted form of the_text & " > ~/Desktop/
testtext.txt"
If your text has no apostrophes (') then:
do shell script "echo -n '" & the_text & "' > ~/Desktop/testtext.txt"
Philip Aker
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