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In article <1992Nov19.224105.9381@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>,
carlip@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Walter C3arlip) wrote:
> 
> A colleague of mine needs to use TEXT files on Macs and IBM-pcs.  He has
> Macintosh PC-Exchange, but to my shock PC-Exchange does not provide
> a mechanism for converting IBMs line endings (CR-LF) to Macintosh
> line endings (just CR, right?).  
> 
> I know that Apple-File exchange will make the conversion, but this is
> very inconvenient and not something that we want to deal with several
> times a day.  What I'd really like is . . . a pair of drag-drop
> file converters that convert mac text files to ibm text files and
> verse-visa.  Anyone know of such a beast?
> 
I don't know about the drag and drop converters, but many of the Macintosh
TEXT editors (not word processors) have the option to filter line feeds
when saving a file and will automatically convert from other formats to Mac
format when reading in a file.  My understanding is that line feeds are
really the only difference between text files on the two platforms.  The
text editors could then do the conversion if needed.  If all you what to do
is edit these files, you could just keep the files in PC format, and have
the text editor convert them to Mac format when reading and back to PC
format when saving.

My recommendation for a text editor is bbedit.  It is available in info-mac
at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.  For more complexity on the order of emacs there
is alpha also available from sumex.

I hope this helps.

-Jim

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