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> 
> Dear Markus,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:17:22PM -0500, Markus Pueschel wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have the following problem (GAP3). When printing a
> > long string to a file using the function PrintTo, the
> > string is broken at a certain length and a "\" is inserted.
> > It looks like: (this was a single string)
> >
> > 246810121416182022242628303234363840424446485052545658606264666870727476788082\
> > 848688909294969810010210410610811011211411611812012212412612813013213413613814\
> > 014214414614815015215415615816016216416616817017217417617818018218418618819019\
> > 2194196198200
> >
> > How can I avoid the line-breaking or at least the insertion of
> > backslashes?
> >
> > Thanks, Markus
> >
> 
> PrintTo(<stream>,<object>) and AppendTo  behave like Print and therefore break the lines
> as though writing to screen (see Section 10.4 of the manual). In preference one uses
> WriteAll(<stream>, <string>) which simply writes the string to the
> stream byte-by-byte.
> 
> I believe the following does what you want.
> 
> gap> n; # n is an integer
> 246810121416182022242628303234363840424446485052545658606264666870727476788082848\
> 688909294969810010210410610811011211411611812012212412612813013213413613814014214\
> 414614815015215415615816016216416616817017217417617818018218418618819019219419619\
> 8200
> gap> s := String(n); # convert the integer to a string
> "24681012141618202224262830323436384042444648505254565860626466687072747678808284\
> 868890929496981001021041061081101121141161181201221241261281301321341361381401421\
> 441461481501521541561581601621641661681701721741761781801821841861881901921941961\
> 98200"
> 
> gap> filename := Filename(DirectoryCurrent(), "strtst");
> "./strtst"
> 
> gap> output := OutputTextFile( filename, false );
> OutputTextFile(./strtst)
> 
> gap> WriteAll(output,s);
> true
> gap> CloseStream(output);
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Andrew
> 

Thanks for your help.

I don't seem to have the command
WriteAll(..)
Is this maybe a GAP4 command? I am using GAP3.

Markus