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From: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: ERIC M MICKELSON <emm1@lsdn.ksc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: TEXT with newlines 
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ERIC M MICKELSON <emm1@lsdn.ksc.nasa.gov> writes:
> I need to get these newline characters stored or else store every line
> as a different text array element (blah).  I'm sure I am missing
> something simple, but please help if you can.

an undocumented parser feature is support for embedding
	\t
	\n
	\r
	\b
	\f
the bad news is that if you try to "copy out" attributes with 
embedded \t or \n, most output routines aren't smart enough to
re-escape the strings.  oops.
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