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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
>
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