Re: Help with MAC files on PC

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:00

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Sean Sharkey <sean@g0oanint.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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> One thing to be aware of when opening .HQX files on a PC.
> PCs use two control characters at the end of each line of
> text, CR (Carriage Return) and LF (Line Feed) Macs of course
> used just one CR. If you open a .HQX file on a PC it will
> probably add LF's to the end of each line which in turn will
> in effect corrupt the file when you transfer it to your Mac,
> so it won't decode.

Why not do a test like I did?  StuffitExpander doesn't care about the
different line endings in BinHex files: Mac or PC standards are both
fine.  I've not tried Unix standard line terminators, but I assume that
they're okay too.

Rowland.

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