Do you know where I could find a copy of aplhax? I looked online and
found something, but when I tried to run it it told me the beta had
expired and to download a new one.
Thanks,
Kara Di Giorgio
On Jun 14, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Knut Langsetmo wrote:
> the problem is in the original use of "textedit". the standard end of
> line
> character in a mac is the carriage return character (which will show up
> on the unix side as ^M), while in unix uses a line feed (dos/win uses
> a carriage return-line feed pair). so the suggestion to use the
> command
> dos2unix will not work in this case. there are many ways to deal with
> it.
> the simple command "tr '\r' '\n' < macfile.txt > unixfile.txt" should
> work.
> alternatively, you can use vi, and change from <cr>(mac) to <lf>
> (unix):
> :set fileformat=unix
> :w
>
> or to change back the other way:
> :set fileformat=mac
> :w
>
> it also works for windoz land:
> :set fileformat=dos
> :w
>
> and to tell the difference:
> set statusline=%<%f%h%m%r%=%{&ff}\ %l,%c%V\ %P
>
> but my favorite is to use a different text editor in the first place.
> some free
> alternatives for the mac running osx are alphax (my favorite, mostly
> because
> it was my first), and subethaedit (probably currently the best)
>
>
> --knut
>
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