At 9:54 AM -0600 10/31/01, Ken Ray wrote:
>This has to do with the fact that the Mac uses a carriage return/line-feed
>combination (CRLF) at the end of each line, and Windows generally uses just
>LFs (or is just CRs? I can't remember right now). CRs are ASCII 13, LFs are
>ASCII 10, BTW. In any event, when it gets to the Mac, it is missing the
>"extra" charater to indicate the end of the line. You can handle this in MC
>by reading in the text, doing a simple "replace" operation on the text
>before processing it.

Macs use cr, Windows uses crlf, UNIX uses lf. Now all we need is a platform still 
using EBCDIC and we'll have a full house! :-)

regards,

Geoff


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