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- From: gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
- Subject: Re: Summary: Aufs Mac -> Unix copies and CR -> LF conversion
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:59:11 GMT
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- I agree that Aufs should be patched to convert CR's in all Mac
- TEXT files when dragged to Aufs volume (possibly barring some
- .GIF/.tiff/.other suffixed files, which my feeling is should
- not be typed as TEXT in the first place, but as BINA or something
- else).
-
- But a more subtle problem that I hope someone else has noticed
- is that you cannot save TEXT type files from a Mac application
- onto an Aufs volume and have the CR's converted. I would very
- much like to see this. We have many avid mac users who must also
- use Unix computers to do data analysis. This data analysis involves
- editing TEXT type files that reside on the Unix computer. It
- is most convenient to do this with a Mac text editor (or word processor
- if we remember to save as text). But in this case, my naive users
- must learn the tricky extra steps of saving the Unix data file to a Mac
- disk first, then drag that file to the Aufs volume, for the CR->LF
- conversion to work.
-
- Is it possible to do this conversion when saving directly from
- Mac application to Aufs disk? I looked at the code several
- patches back and couldn't find anyway to do this.
-
- -- Don
- --
- Don Gilbert gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
- biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
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