gapp@pur-ee.UUCP (GAPP Research) (03/02/89)
Cheer, I am a new Mac user, so please forgive me if this problem is been asked before. I have a text file at IBM PC. I want to transfer it to a MacII that I got recently. I used the given program "disk file exchange" came with the system. It worked all right. But my problem is that the new file I got ( at the Mac ) has a square box in the first column of every line. I can use the editor to delete it manually, but that's dumb. Is there anything I did wrong? Or is there any way that I can filter these square out from the file? Please e-mail me. I am not a subscriber to this group. Thanks a lot in advance. Aynang Yang aynang@ecn.purdue.edu
tempest@csuchico.EDU (Kenneth Lui) (03/04/89)
In article <10872@pur-ee.UUCP> aynang@ed.ecn.purdue.edu (Yang Aynang) writes: >Cheer, > >... But my problem is that the new file I got ( at >the Mac ) has a square box in the first column of every line. I can use the >editor to delete it manually, but that's dumb. They are caused by the MS-DOS's convention of using CR-LFs to separate lines, unlike Apple's convention of just CRs. You can select change CR-LF to just CR when within Apple File Exchange. It is on the menu labeled either: IBM<->Mac or Mac<->IBM...depending on which way you wish to transfer. Choose Text translation, and you'll get a dialog box along with a whole mess of other things you can do. Ken tempest@csuchico.EDU