[ic] Writing to a file other than with Log tag?

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting marc.brevoort (marc.brevoort@armazemdedados.com):
> Hello group,
> 
> In the project that I'm doing, we need to output generated data to file (in 
> this case, the file will contain printable HTML documents). Once in a while, 
> it could happen that a file needs to be replaced by a newer version.
> 
> As file operations are by default blocked by safe mode, I figured using the 
> Log tag to write to file would be a reasonable way to go, but replacing the 
> contents of a log file seems a problem.
> 
> Is there another way to allow me to have the Interchange server write files,
> without disabling safe mode?

There are two ways.

One is to use the UI-based [write-relative-file ...] tag, which has the
advantage of automatically creating needed directories.

The other is to use the (I believe documented) file spec:

	[log file=">the_file" type=text]The stuff.[/log]

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Mike Heins
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