On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 07:42 PM, Lloyd D Budd wrote:

> on 2002/05/20 13:43,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:

> 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
all you need to do is go to format/make plain text, or hit command-t
:-)
> 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!
bbedit lets you change line breaks: click on one of the little document 
icon. it's there. and you might want to change the default line endings 
in the prefs,

Cheers,
-chris zubrzycki
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