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Re: Calling all unix programmers: MAC2UNIX and UNIX2MAC anyone?

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From: Robert Frank
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).
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