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- [TextToMac 1.2]
-
- TextToMac is a utility program for Macintosh computers. It converts the end-of-line
- code of text files between Macintosh, MS-DOS PC, and UNIX formats. These
- computers use different codes to indicate the end of each line. Macintosh uses "CR
- (0x0D)", MS-DOS PC "CR+LF (0x0D0A)", and UNIX "LF (0x0A)".
-
- +++ How to Use +++
- Just drag & drop the file you want to convert to the TextToMac icon.
- First, you set the default way conversion method for each file type (from
- Macintosh/MS-DOS/UNIX to Macintosh/MS-DOS/UNIX). When you drag & drop a file,
- the program recognizes its type and, voila, you get the converted file.
-
- +++ How to Setup +++
-
- First, double-click the TextToMac icon. When the "About Box" of TextToMac appears,
- click the lower-left "Preferences..." button. The Setup dialog box appears.The Setup
- dialog box also appears if you drag & drop while pressing the Option key.
-
- There are four things you have to setup.
-
- +How to Convert? (Conversion Method)
- TextToMac reads the content of the dropped file and tries to find an end-of-line code.
- It recognizes the file type by looking at the form of the end-of-line code. Here you
- should set up which type of text file should be converted to which type. For example,
- Macintosh -> UNIX
- means that the program will convert a text file with the Mac-type end-of-line code to
- a file with UNIX-type.
-
- +Where to save the converted file?
- You set how to define the folder for saving the converted file. Choose from the
- following three.
- 1. Show "Save as" dialog
- The program displays the standard "Save as" dialog box for each of the dropped
- files. You set the folder (and the name) each time.
- 2. Save to the same folder as original
- Save the converted file into the same folder as the original, with a different
- name. The new name will be the original name plus an extension (suffix). The
- program alerts you if a file with the same name already exists.
- 3. Overwrite original file
- The program overwrites the original without changing the name. The alert
- message will appear. You can disable this alert by unchecking the box below this
- option.
-
- +What extension should be added?
- Set the extension to be added to the original file name. Each file type should have a
- different extension. If you choose the option 3 written above, the setting will be
- ignored.
-
- +The type of the creator for the converted files
- The finder launches an application according to the "creator name" written in the
- document file. Here you set the application program you want to launch when you
- double-click the icon of the converted text file.Click "Set" and the standard dialog box
- appears. Select the program you want to use and click "Open". You can also directly
- type the Creator name.
-
- +++ Miscellaneous +++
-
- The end-of-line codes are the following.
- Macintosh ..... CR (0x0D)
- MS-DOS ........ CR+LF (0x0D0A)
- UNIX .......... LF (0x0A)
- If TextToMac doesn't find these codes in the dropped file, it does nothing, .
-
- The Setup dialog box also appears if you drag & drop while pressing the Option key. If
- you click "Save" after changing the preferences, the program saves the new
- preferences and then converts the files. If you click "Temp", the program converts
- the files according to the new temporary setup but does not save it.
-
- Access PC may hang up when you copy a file with more than one extensions (e.g.
- "Test.c.dos") to a DOS floppy. TextToMac is likely to generate such a file, so be
- careful!
-
- IN CASE YOU ARE USING VIRTUAL MEMORY, PLEASE INCREASE APPLICATION
- PARTITION SIZE OF TextToMac! TextToMac uses temporary memory area (a portion
- of free memory area that no application program uses) as the buffer for the file
- conversion. If the "virtual memory" is ON, and if there isn't enough free real
- memory, the TextToMac buffer can be made in the slow hard disk, rendering the
- buffer useless because it is too slow. To avoid this problem, TextToMac assigns the
- buffer in its own memory partition, not in the temporary memory area, if the
- virtual memory is ON. As the default memory partition size is only 64 K, please set
- it at least 150 K if you use virtualmemory. In principle, the larger the partition is,
- the faster the conversion, although there is some upper limit. To change the
- memory partition size, go to Finder, select the TextToMac icon, type cmd-I, and
- change the memory size in the dialog box.
-
- ++++++
- This program is designed by ITO, Kei and coded by SUMIYA, Takahiro.
- This is freeware.
- Any comments, suggestions or bug reports are welcome.
- Please contact me via e-mail: sumi@cuby.mis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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