Re: Adding carriage returns to text file

2017-06-21 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
There are tools for this task, because it's a common need whichever
platform one is on. Here's a relevant article:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031018164326986

I have not used LineBrake myself, mostly because I generally use the
Unix/Linux dos2unix (or unix2dos) tool which does the same thing.

Here's a bit more info about what this is all about:

Microsoft indicates end of line with a pair of control characters, both
Ctrl-J and Ctrl-M together.

Unix/Linux uses only Ctrl-J

Apple uses Ctrl-M


Ergo: We need a tool that will assist reading our files when we port
them among platforms.

hth

Janina

Tyler Thompson writes:
> You could also use regular expressions in a wide variety of text editors to 
> replace all \n characters (newline) with \r\n (basically the carriage return 
> you were looking for)
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Jun 20, 2017, at 14:42, Chris Moore  wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I had the need to add carriage returns to a text file created on my mac so 
> > I could read it properly on my braille device.  After several hours of 
> > experimentation from articles found on google, I discovered that the only 
> > way to accomplish this was using the “vi” program in terminal.  Here are 
> > the steps:
> > 
> > 1.  open the terminal program.
> > 2.  interact with the terminal window with vo shift down-arrow.
> > 3.  if the file is not in your home directory, change to the appropriate 
> > folder with the “cd” command.
> > 4.  Open the file with the vi editor with “vi file”
> > 5. type: “:set fileformat=dos” 
> > 6.  Now save the file with “:wq”
> > 
> > Remember that the quotes around the above commands are NOT to be entered.
> > 
> > There may be other approaches, but this one is quite simple once you use it 
> > a few times.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
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Re: Adding carriage returns to text file

2017-06-21 Thread Ian Robinson 
Hi Tyler,

As well as using search and replace as another lister suggests, you can set 
TextEdit to save all files in the Windows format if preferred.

Go into TextEdit Preferences, choose the Open and Save tab, then look at the 
settings for Plain Text File Encoding.

Regards.

Ian



> On 20 Jun 2017, at 23:54, Tyler Thompson  wrote:
> 
> You could also use regular expressions in a wide variety of text editors to 
> replace all \n characters (newline) with \r\n (basically the carriage return 
> you were looking for)
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jun 20, 2017, at 14:42, Chris Moore  wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> I had the need to add carriage returns to a text file created on my mac so I 
>> could read it properly on my braille device.  After several hours of 
>> experimentation from articles found on google, I discovered that the only 
>> way to accomplish this was using the “vi” program in terminal.  Here are the 
>> steps:
>> 
>> 1.  open the terminal program.
>> 2.  interact with the terminal window with vo shift down-arrow.
>> 3.  if the file is not in your home directory, change to the appropriate 
>> folder with the “cd” command.
>> 4.  Open the file with the vi editor with “vi file”
>> 5. type: “:set fileformat=dos” 
>> 6.  Now save the file with “:wq”
>> 
>> Remember that the quotes around the above commands are NOT to be entered.
>> 
>> There may be other approaches, but this one is quite simple once you use it 
>> a few times.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
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Re: Adding carriage returns to text file

2017-06-20 Thread Tyler Thompson 
You could also use regular expressions in a wide variety of text editors to 
replace all \n characters (newline) with \r\n (basically the carriage return 
you were looking for)

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 14:42, Chris Moore  wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I had the need to add carriage returns to a text file created on my mac so I 
> could read it properly on my braille device.  After several hours of 
> experimentation from articles found on google, I discovered that the only way 
> to accomplish this was using the “vi” program in terminal.  Here are the 
> steps:
> 
> 1.  open the terminal program.
> 2.  interact with the terminal window with vo shift down-arrow.
> 3.  if the file is not in your home directory, change to the appropriate 
> folder with the “cd” command.
> 4.  Open the file with the vi editor with “vi file”
> 5. type: “:set fileformat=dos” 
> 6.  Now save the file with “:wq”
> 
> Remember that the quotes around the above commands are NOT to be entered.
> 
> There may be other approaches, but this one is quite simple once you use it a 
> few times.
> 
> Chris
> 
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Adding carriage returns to text file

2017-06-20 Thread Chris Moore 
Hello,
I had the need to add carriage returns to a text file created on my mac so I 
could read it properly on my braille device.  After several hours of 
experimentation from articles found on google, I discovered that the only way 
to accomplish this was using the “vi” program in terminal.  Here are the steps:

1.  open the terminal program.
2.  interact with the terminal window with vo shift down-arrow.
3.  if the file is not in your home directory, change to the appropriate folder 
with the “cd” command.
4.  Open the file with the vi editor with “vi file”
5. type: “:set fileformat=dos” 
6.  Now save the file with “:wq”

Remember that the quotes around the above commands are NOT to be entered.

There may be other approaches, but this one is quite simple once you use it a 
few times.

Chris

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