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- From: hackerb9@carson.u.washington.edu (Smurfkiller Bob)
- Subject: Re: Proterm file transfer & appleworks files
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.103644.6590@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington
- References: <1992Sep10.121755.8749@cas.org> <1992Sep10.195221.16348@ll.mit.edu> <19920911.055155.597@almaden.ibm.com> <1992Sep11.153032.3575@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 10:36:44 GMT
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- yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich) writes:
-
- >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)?
- > Thanks again.
- >--
- > Alan Yasutovich
-
- Those "#"'s are control characters in your file. In my version of
- Appleworks ^I (tab) is turned into a "#" which messes up the
- formatting. So what I do before transfering a text file is (in unix):
-
- expand file.txt > newfile.txt
-
- That will turn all the tabs into equivalent spaces and AppleWorks will
- be happy.
-
- Benjamin
- Hackerb9@u.washington.edu
-