>Where you may hit a snag is the deceptively simple case of a text 
>file. Should you produce a text file with one of the Mac-native apps 
>(such as TextEdit), then attempt to read it on a Windows machine, you 
>will discover one of the primary differences between Macs and 
>Windows: line ending characters. And just to further confuse things, 
>Linux uses yet another, different scheme.

Actually, many (most?) text-based apps on the Mac can detect the presence 
of Mac/Win/Unix line endings and handle them accordingly. I suggest using 
the free Text Wrangler (bbsoftware.com) because it gives you easy control 
over the system written to the file.


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