I/O Managers

file

Supported By

XION Scripting Language Standard (1.0)
OpenXION (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4)
OpenXION Standard Module (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4)
HyperTalk (2.2)

Examples

open file "XION.tex"

open file "XION.tex" as "ISO-8859-1"

open file "XION.tex" as "UTF-8"

open file "Resources.dff" as "binary"

Description

The file I/O manager allows reading and writing to files using the I/O commands open, read, write, truncate, and close. See the documentation for each I/O command for more information.

Note

If no I/O method is given, the file I/O manager assumes the text I/O method using the current value of the textEncoding property as the text encoding to use.

Security

To open files, OpenXION's security settings must allow one or both of the FILE_SYSTEM_READ and FILE_SYSTEM_WRITE security keys. To read from files, OpenXION's security settings must allow the FILE_SYSTEM_READ security key. To write to files, OpenXION's security settings must allow the FILE_SYSTEM_WRITE security key. If the required security key is denied, a script error will be triggered.

Compatibility

HyperTalk does not support the as keyword. HyperTalk assumes the MacRoman text encoding.