Re: CRLF fun stuff again...


Subject: Re: CRLF fun stuff again...
From: Paul Schinder (schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2001 - 07:50:27 EST


At 12:08 PM +0000 2/3/01, Duncan Sinclair wrote:
>This is the sort of thing I mean. I know that BBEdit handles Unix
>files transparently. That's not what I'm interested in. I want to
>edit Mac-produced files on the Unix end. Vi doesn't "do" Mac-style
>line endings. Nor does any other unix utility. Nor should they.

GNU emacs has no problems reading files with Mac end-of-line. 20.7
even tells you what the line endings are (like Alpha, for example)
and as I just verified, uses Mac EOL if you add lines to a Mac file.

xemacs, on the other hand, can't read Mac files.

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Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 693
schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov



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