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is this a vbscript error or an IIS backwards compatibility issue

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hi,
im using FileSystemObject's File object to create an html file and write it to the webserver's disk and then send it as a mail attachment.

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  1. final_draft="<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd""><html xmlns=""http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml""><head><meta "&_
  2. "http-equiv=""Content-Type"" content=""text/html; charset=windows-1256"" />"&strAttachment
  3. AttachmentFile.write(final_draft)
where strAttachment is a long string built using some variables

now this works preety smoothly under Windows XP IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 server, but once the application was shipped to a Windows 2000 server machine
it started to generate the following error

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005'

Invalid procedure call or argument

/customs/edr/donate/attach.asp, line 49

line 49 is
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  1. AttachmentFile.write(final_draft)
the silly thing is that if i ommit the string preceding strAttachment it works just fine and vice versa if i ommit strAttachment it also works !!!
the funnier is that the script engine version on both servers is the same 5.6
appreciate the help
thanks
Regards
Sep 18 '06 #1
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never mind i solved it
it turned out that the Win2000 server machine had a problem digesting some "unexpected characters" so iused createTextFile with unicode format designator instead of openTextFile and it 's working great.
hope this helps those who fall into the same hole
Sep 18 '06 #2

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