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- 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.
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- Tim.
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