🚀 go-pugleaf

lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A. Smith) writes:

    In the absence of such aforethought, does there exist any kind unix
    programmers out there who can create a program so that my linebreaks
    (and any other nuances of how unix and macs treat text files) are
    preserved when I start a text only file on one platform and finish it
    on another?

try putting these two lines in your .cshrc file:

    alias mac2unix "tr '\015' '\012'"
    alias unix2mac "tr '\012' '\015'"

then you can say

    mac2unix <the-mac-file >the-unix-file
    unix2mac <the-unix-file >the-mac-file

this takes care of the linebreaks; as long as you stick to ascii there
shouldn't be any other problems.
                                             .mike.