NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/sys/apple2/27579

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From: [e-mail] (Stefan Voss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Need help with some text files
Date: 26 Jan 1993 14:13:41 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Herbert Fung) writes:
|> Recently a friend (who uses a IBM Compatable) sent me some text files
|> zipped. I after I unziped them on my GS I tried reading the files, but
|> apparently something didn't come out right. It looks like all the carrage
|> returns were turned into an unknown charater which was denoted with an
|> inverted "?". What can I do besides manually changing all the inverted
|> "?" manually. I really don't want to do this because there are at least 3
|> megs of text files. Are there any programs out there that will do this
|> for me? Thanks for any replies.
|>
Probably, MS-DOS uses Newline characters (ASCII code $0A) as line terminators
(like UNIX) for text files. The normal line terminator on a GS is Carriage Return
(ASCII code $0D) and fortunately you don't have change your files manually.
I know 3 programs that do the work.
- conv. An EXE file that is supplied with GNO/ME.
- lf2cr. Exits in a EXE version and a NDA version.
- vi. I think this editor can read both kinds of text files.

They should all be available via FTP. Try the pindarus server.
Hope this helps.

|> --
|> Herbert Fung              [e-mail]

Stefan Voss
([e-mail])