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Received: from ppsw3.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA07976 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 7 May 1995 07:01:12 -0700 Received: from mole.bio.cam.ac.uk by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with SMTP-CAM (XTPP8.1) as ppsw.cam.ac.uk; Sun, 7 May 1995 15:00:36 +0100 Received: from localhost by mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (931110.SGI/MDTG-V1.3@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) id AA08595; Sun, 7 May 95 15:05:18 +0100 Message-Id: <9505071405.AA08595@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> To: Toby Everett <tua@tua.st.hmc.edu> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: D/Ling w/ Executor DOS In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 1995 06:49:48 PDT." <199505071349.GAA01420@tua.st.hmc.edu> Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 15:05:17 +0100 From: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk In your message (Sun, 7 May 1995 06:49:48 -0700 (PDT)), you wrote: >> AHA! I know the cause of that! That's because the file has DOS >> or Unix line termination and not Mac file termination. If you are >> running the Linux version, you can convert them easily: >> >> tr '\012' '\015' < crashing.sit.hqx > no-crash.sit.hqx >> >> This may not be a problem with DOS line termination which as the CR >> the Mac requires. Linux does not. >One other quick idea. Are you grabbing them in ASCII mode or BIN mode with >ftp? He probably used ASCII mode on a Linux PC. He then ended up with a Linux text format HQX file which requires the above transformation to work with executor/linux. The way to test under Linux is to cat the file. If it has correct Mac line endings, it will *not* scroll up the screen, but each line will overwrite the previous one. Tim.