OutputDebugString directly to file?

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By chance there was this same conversation going on over on the newsgroups. Over there, in order to avoid using the ASCII driver I had suggested a simple function using StringTheory along these lines:

Logit procedure(String pMessage, String pFileName, long pAppend=true, long pODS=true)
st stringTheory
  code
  st.setvalue(pMessage,st:clip)
  if pODS then st.trace().  ! outputs to ODS
  if not st.EndsWith('<13,10>') then st.append('<13,10>').
  if not st.saveFile(pFileName, pAppend)
    message('unable to write to file ' & clip(pFileName) & |
            '||Error: ' & st.LastError)
  end