[net.micro.mac] Transfer of ASCII between Mac and UNIX

bill@hao.UUCP (Bill Roberts) (10/06/86)

How does one go about transferring ASCII files between UNIX and the Mac?  It 
seems that when an ASCII file is downloaded from UNIX, the tabs and newlines
get confused in the transfer and the file, once loaded on the Mac, looks quite
strange.  I believe the the download used Versaterm and used the "save stream"
menu item.  I appologize for the lack of details.

Thanks for any ideas...

--Bill

dwb@well.UUCP (David W. Berry) (10/08/86)

Probably the best way to transfer an ascii file to the mac from
a unix system is to use tr on the unix system to convert the
newlines to carriage returns:

	tr \\012 \\015 < input > output

Then download the file using whatever "binary" mode transfer protocol
you choose.
-- 
	David W. Berry
	dwb@well.uucp                   dwb@Delphi
	dwb@GEnie                       293-0752@408.MaBell