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Article #34Re: Calling all unix programmers: MAC2UNIX and UNIX2MAC anyone?
From: Robert Frank
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 07:49
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 07:49
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In article <1992Oct28.021445.24135@athena.mit.edu> 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.
There's this nice little utility (application) written by Markus Stoll and
Matthias Zepf called Rosetta which does this using a GUI.
The version I have converts Amiga, Atari ST, MacIntosch, MS-DOS and NeXT files
backwards and forwards.
It should still float around the archives (I'm still running 2.1).
--
Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67
Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15
University of Basel, Switzerland
Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted)
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( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
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