HOW GET FILES TO MAC?

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2 total messages Started by L. Anathea Brooks Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:43

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Author: L. Anathea Brooks
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:43

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I want to work on files on my Next and then transfer them 
to my Mac because there I have apps to do linguistic 
analysis unavailable on the Next.

I have tried saving as text in WriteNow, and placing text 
file on Mac disk mounted on Next. The Mac won't read the 
file. 

I do have DOS capability on the Mac. Also a bunch of 
DataViz translators.

What is the way to do this? It's just simple text!!

thanks

Robert de Lucca

Re: HOW GET FILES TO MAC?

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Author: Lones A. Smith
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:47

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In article <1992Dec30.034308.25742@wam.umd.edu> gaia@wam.umd.edu (L.  
Anathea Brooks) writes:
> I want to work on files on my Next and then transfer them 
> to my Mac because there I have apps to do linguistic 
> analysis unavailable on the Next.
> 
> I have tried saving as text in WriteNow, and placing text 
> file on Mac disk mounted on Next. The Mac won't read the 
> file. 
> 
> I do have DOS capability on the Mac. Also a bunch of 
> DataViz translators.
> 
> What is the way to do this? It's just simple text!!
> 
> thanks
> 
> Robert de Lucca

I assume you are saving in Mac format on the NeXT. The following corrects  
just for line breaks and works for my TeXing purposes.

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

in your .cshrc file. Then use the command
mac2unix <macfilename> unixfilename
and the obvious reverse direction.  Then when in Writenow, open the file  
as text only, but save as text only with line breaks.  I think that's it.

--
Lones A. Smith
Department of Economics
MIT E52-252C
Cambridge MA 02139
v-mail: (617) 253-0914
e-mail: lones@lones.mit.edu  (NeXT mail or the garden variety stuff)

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