kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) (03/27/89)
We just started playing with TOPS between Macs and a Sun. If I understand what is going on, the Mac uses CR to mark line ends, but Unix systems use LF to mark the lines. What I want to find is a Mac application which will edit LF delimited text files. Is there such a beast? Kent Borg kent@lloyd.uucp or ...!hscfvax!lloyd!kent
paul@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Paul Meyer) (03/27/89)
In article <358@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes: >If I understand what is going on, the Mac uses CR to mark line ends, >but Unix systems use LF to mark the lines. > >What I want to find is a Mac application which will edit LF delimited >text files. Is there such a beast? I often have the same situation: the LF's turn up as garbage characters at the end or beginning of each line. I use a program called "Add/Strip" version 2.0 (I believe). It will do what you want, among other things. Another option is to use Microsoft Word, and enter the ascii code of the LF into the find/replace box and replace it with nothing. In other words, put ^## (where ## is the ascii code for line feed) into the find box, nothing into the change to box, and select change all. Finally, I believe that McSink can also strip line feeds, but I don't have it in front of me, so I can't be certain. Good Luck,-- Paul Meyer paul@caf.mit.edu Microsystems Technology Laboratory MIT
mholden@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Maretta Holden) (03/28/89)
We are running TOPS to connect IBM PCs and Macintoshes. The TOPS copy operations from the Macintosh side provide text conversion facilities. I have also used the shareware application Add/Strip make paragraphs function to generate Mac text files from line feed cluttered files. Maretta Holden