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In article <1992Oct28.021445.24135@athena.mit.edu> lones@lones.mit.edu  
(Lones A. Smith) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Now that 3.0 reads MAC and DOS diskettes, it would be nice if NeXT  
> included a simpl textfile concversion option. 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?
> 
> The motive here is LaTeXing files.
> 
> --
> Lones A. Smith
> Department of Economics
> MIT E52-252C
> Cambridge MA 02139
> v-mail: (617) 253-0914
> e-mail: lones@lones.mit.edu      (either NeXT mail or the garden variety  
> stuff)

I have used the following at the unix prompt and it seems to work fine:

from Mac to Next:
cat MacFile.txt | tr '\015' '\012' > NextFile.txt

I haven't tried it the other way, but it would probably work by reversing  
the 015 and the 012.

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