Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:18:18 +0300 From: Mordecha Behar <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: linux-il <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Palm to Android via Linux Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I've encountered the opposite problem. Files I create in a Linux text editor (Kwrite) don't open properly in Windows Notepad. I get the entire file on one line. Maybe there's something strange going on behind the scenes in KDE? On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Shlomo Solomon <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having a strange problem moving some memo files from my Palm Zire to a > new > Android phone. Since 2 of the 3 platforms I'm using are Linux (my PC and my > phone), I think this is on-topic - so long as we don't get into an > arguement > about whether Android is really Linux or not ;-). > > 1 - I used jpilot to export Palm memo files to text files > 2 - the files look fine in a Linux text editor (Kwrite, Kate, etc) > 3 - I used Dropbox to move the files to my phone > 4 - When I open the files on the phone (with various editors), there are > strange line breaks (seem to be random - between words, in the middle of a > word or even after each letter) - like this: > This is a tes > t to show > an exa > m > p > l > e > 5 - I tried opening the files in Open Office (in Linux) and saving as .odt > and > again copied to the phone with dropbox > 6 - The Android Open Office reader app now reads the files properly. > > Any ideas why the original text files show this behaviour? > > BTW - when I opened the files in Open Office (in Linux), I checked to see > if > there were un-printable characters, but that doesn't seem to be the > problem. I > even looked at the files in hexedit to see if there were any unusual > characters, but found nothing unusual. > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail 1.13.3 (KDE 4.4.3) on LINUX Mandriva 2010.1 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/attachments/20110601/a7117193/attachment.html> Windows needs the CRLF pair while Linux provides the LF only at the end of a text - line Saba Moshe _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
