On 19 Feb 2004, at 19:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:00:33 -0700
From: Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [OT] Cross Mac Platform Text Editing
To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Feb 19, 2004, at 8:53 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:


Hi All,

When moving text files created or modified with TextEdit on Mac OS
10.2 to Mac OS 9, I find no OS 9 text editing app that will open them,
even those stored as plain text.

You sure you aren't creating RTF files with TextEdit? Also, TextEdit has

How do other deal with this?  Is there a recommended cross Mac
platform text editor?  [Preferably something without "Microsoft" in
its pedigree.]

A text file is a text file is a text file (except for line endings and text encoding)

I use TextEdit occasionally, and never have problems opening the files
Unix or Windows text editors.

Maybe you are dealing with a file type issue and the apps you are
trying on Mac OS 9 are saying: "no text type in resource fork. eh!
bail."

--
Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com


Text edit for Mac OS 9 has a 32 kb file limit. For OS X take a look at SubEthaEdit (former Hydra). The name is horrible, but not the features! http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ Is there something similar as this one on the other platforms?

Greetings,
WA

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