: I begin work on Monday with an organization that has only Macintosh
: computers. If I type a plain ASCII file in DOS, can I easily open it
: on a Macintosh, or do I need some sort of emulator program to save it
: in a format particular to Mac? I'll be doing all of my writing on my
Plain ASCII is simple. The only difference between the two platforms
is that Dos puts a <CR> followed by a <LF> between each text line. A
Mac only puts a <CR>, so if you open your Dos text file (after moving
it over using, say, Apple's exchange program), you will see a "square
box" at the beginning of each line except the first: it represents the
<LF> in your Dos file.
If you use upper ASCII characters (to represent accented characters),
it gets to be even more fun, 'cause the Mac doesn't use either the Dos
or the Windows character map. Still, it is a simple one-to-one translation.
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