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Article #59Re: Calling all unix programmers: MAC2UNIX and UNIX2MAC anyone?
From: Magnus Nordborg
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 21:51
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 21:51
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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 this in my ".cshrc":
# for transferring ASCII files from/to Macintosh
alias mac2unix "tr '\015' '\012' < \!^ > \!^.tmp; mv \!^.tmp \!^"
alias unix2mac "tr '\012' '\015' < \!^ > \!^.tmp; mv \!^.tmp \!^"
--
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail preferred)
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