Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File

2013-08-09 Thread mailingli...@berwick.name
l.erk...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:41:42 +0200 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File Hi Jef, Yes I ran into this as well. If you have a mac text file in your windows machine and you want to edit it, then yes, the line breaks ar

Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jef, Yes I ran into this as well. If you have a mac text file in your windows machine and you want to edit it, then yes, the line breaks are all messed up. I'll try to explain what is going on, and then give you the solution. Each character in a text file is a 1-byte value. In the old days,

Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File

2013-08-08 Thread Candie Stiles
Have you tried saving the file as a Microsoft Word document while on the mac and then opening it in windows? I know I've created documents using Pages and converted them before sending them to people as attachments and I've never been told the file didn't turn out correctly. On Aug 8, 2013, at 4

Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File

2013-08-08 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi All, I am working with a file that I have created on my Mac and I need to access it on my Windows machine. The line endings are all messed up though, so that returns are not being honoured. Does anybody know a quick way to make sure that the file can be edited on both a Mac and Windows mac