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- Chuck Bell (cbell@sol.wf.net) wrote:
- : I begin work on Monday with an organization that has only Macintosh
- : computers. If I type a plain ASCII file in DOS, can I easily open it
- : on a Macintosh, or do I need some sort of emulator program to save it
- : in a format particular to Mac? I'll be doing all of my writing on my
-
- Plain ASCII is simple. The only difference between the two platforms
- is that Dos puts a <CR> followed by a <LF> between each text line. A
- Mac only puts a <CR>, so if you open your Dos text file (after moving
- it over using, say, Apple's exchange program), you will see a "square
- box" at the beginning of each line except the first: it represents the
- <LF> in your Dos file.
-
- If you use upper ASCII characters (to represent accented characters),
- it gets to be even more fun, 'cause the Mac doesn't use either the Dos
- or the Windows character map. Still, it is a simple one-to-one translation.
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