on 2002/05/20 13:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: >> Hello all, >> >> I want to help some how, and as X11 is a little bit out of date, I thought >> that I could submit some diffs vs it or something. Is the source in XML? >> Is my doing this desirable? How would you like me to go about it? >> >> Best regards, >> Lloyd >> > > Hi. You can find the source file at > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/fink/web/xml/x11/x11.xml > Diffs to that source would be a good way to proceed. > > Thanks, > Dave
Oh man, I have really had a time of it. I have only owned a Mac a couple of months -- my background is mostly Windows and AIX. Anyway, I downloaded x11.xml . Opened it in the oxymoronic, Mac TextEdit. I had a full updates and went to save, and which time it informed me that "TextEdit" cannot save in plain text. Ok :-7 So, I [select all] -> [copy] -> [paste] into bbedit lite. Then I follow with: Work -> save -> repeat. A couple hours later, I finish and diff -> everything is diff. I open the file in vi. Noted the ^M, 'dos2unix [in] > [out]. Ouch! It is one continuous like -> no punctuation! Words at line extrema have been joined! I'm screwed! I 'man dos2unix' and discover that it does in place update of the origin. Double ouch! I now know that I should have issued the command 'dos2unix < [in] > [out]' -- I am sure I have used a version (or a similar program, where my semantics were sound). I would be a LOT happier now, but based on my result that would still have not resulted in the file I desire. I know that UNIX, Mac, and Windows all use different ways to terminate lines in text files. My questions: (a) I find info the web about a 'dos2unix', '-c mac' option that does not seem to be present on Mac OS X 10.3 ?! [1] So how do I convert? (b) I seem to recall being asked if I wanted to store files in Mac or UNIX text format. Was that for a particular app or for the whole system? I took a couple hours break, and proceeded to redo my changes using 'vi'. Well, I have done what I can (feel like) for now -- there are some evident signs of laziness present in my results. I do not know how to build the webpage to view a pretty version. Hopefully, my small attachment is alrite. Best regards, Lloyd [1] maybe I should invest some time to have dos2unix protect (l)users like me :-(
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