----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Canyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:20 AM Subject: Re: Mac-text
> 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! :-) > Hmmm. There's Linux for S/390 (IBM mainframe). I wonder if Metacard... naaaaah! Phil > regards, > > Geoff > > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm > Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list. > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
