Tim Bleiler wrote:

>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if it needs to use LC's native line ending, ASCII 10,
>> rather than ASCII 13 that many Mac tools use.
>
> Thanks Richard,
>
> First, do you know of way to set this in TextEdit? I don’t see
> anything that can change that.

I haven't used TextEdit in years, so I'm not sure what options it has for setting line endings. I tend to edit text in LC or a variety of Linux tools, all which use the Unix convention of ASCII 10 for line endings.

> Second, if that is the case, then the descriptions of how to use
> the script only files or how Livecode processes them probably will
> need to change. Should we call this a bug?

Let's find out if that's the issue first. Does it work if you save the file out of a field with binfile?

If so, it may be useful to note the line ending requirement. Where is that documentation?

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 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Systems
 Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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