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- From: bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (j.l.walters)
- Subject: Re: Proterm file transfer & appleworks files
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:45:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.184555.4873@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Sep11.153032.3575@ll.mit.edu>
- Lines: 41
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- From article <1992Sep11.153032.3575@ll.mit.edu>, by yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich):
- > In article <19920911.055155.597@almaden.ibm.com> Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson) writes:
- >>In <1992Sep10.195221.16348@ll.mit.edu> Alan Yasutovich writes:
- >>> I am trying to transfer files from a sun to my apple IIc.
- >>> I am able to transfer the file to a disk, but the appleworks
- >>> software doesn't recognize it; it's in the wrong format.
- >>
- >>Well, more than likely the (text?) files you are getting from your sun are
- >>straight ASCII files. AW does not read those in directly. You have to
- >>Create New Document->From ASCII File->(provide pathname), and that should
- >>read it in. If this is what you are doing, then something else is messed
- >>up.
- >>
- >>Pauley
- >>GEnie: P.Benson1
- >
- >
- > You are right. Thank you. I am able to suck in the file
- > that way. Is there a way to transfer the file so that
- > all the garbage (i.e. many "#"'s) go away, and there
- > isn't any editing to do from the transfer? (Or at least
- > a minimal amount)?
- >
-
- The # signs you are seeing come from the Control-J used by Unix(R)
- to distinguish the end of a line. Apple uses a Control-M for this
- purpose.
-
- MS-DOS uses both the Control-J and Control-M (You can't be too
- sure about the end of the line.)
-
- This means that you have to convert the file at one end or the
- other and the Unix end is normally the easiest. I use two local
- commands, utoa filename(s) and atou filename(s). Both are simply
- tr commands that look for the control character of interest and
- change it to the wanted.
- --
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