I'm wondering if anybody has any good ideas on passing a list of
arbitrary strings between MetaCard and a XCMC/XFCN. The strings may
contain any kind of printable character (including linefeed/return) and
maybe of any length, although they will generally be relatively short.
My current technique is to call an XFMD that encodes the list of
strings into a single delimited string that is delimited using a
non-printable character (ASCII 1). The MetaCard script then sets the
itemDelimiter to numToChar(1) and uses the item chunk to get at the
individual items within the delimited string.
I find this to be a rather ugly hack, so if anyone has any better ideas,
I'd love to hear them.
Thanks muchly.
Earle
-- Earle Lowe emlowe@fsa.cs FSA Corporation UNIX system security and administration software