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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>This action will write text out to a text file. It can either overwrite a file or append text to an existing file. Any file that does not exist will automatically be created.</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Supported Platforms</span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>All Platforms</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Standard Properties </span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>See </span><a class=rvts5 href="ActionStandardProperties.html">Standard Action Properties</a><span class=rvts2>.</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Advanced Properties</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Add to Uninstall</span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>If this property is true, any file touched by this action will be added to the list of files to be removed during uninstallation.</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Append Newline</span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>If this property is true, a newline will be output at the end of the text to be written to the file.</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Encoding</span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>Specifies the language encoding to use when writing text to the file.</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>File Open Action</span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>This tells the action how to open the file for writing. The following choices are available:</span></p>
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<li class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>Append to file - Append the text to an existing file or create a new one if it doesn't exist.</span></li>
<li class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>Overwrite existing file - Write the text to a new file, overwriting any file that already exists.</span></li>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Files</span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>A list of files separated by a ;. Any file that is a relative path is automatically made relative to <%InstallDir%>.</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Line Feed</span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>The type of linefeeds for the specified files. The following choices are available:</span></p>
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<li class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>Auto - choose the linefeeds based on the target install platform.</span></li>
<li class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>Unix - Use UNIX linefeeds (lf)</span></li>
<li class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>Windows - Use Windows linefeeds (crlf)</span></li>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts3>Examples</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts2>The following values will write some of our install configuration out to a config.cfg file.</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts4>Files: config.cfg</span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts4>Line Feed: Unix</span></p>
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<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts4>Text to Write: InstallDir: <%InstallDir%></span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts4> Installer: <%Installer%></span></p>
<p class=rvps1><span class=rvts4> Username: <%Username%></span><span class=rvts1></span></p>
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