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Red Ryder 5.0/Traveling with a Mac

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From: Paul Schinder
Date: Wed, 15 May 1985 06:06
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I've been trying to use Red Ryder 5.0, which was posted to the net a week or
so ago, to do transfers using kermit to our Vax running 4.2 bsd.  I'm
running the Columbia kermit for 4.2 which was posted to the net a while
back.  These files are just ordinary text files; the only reason to use
kermit rather than ASCII transfers is the error checking.  The problem is
that kermit on the Vax translates newline to CRLF.  Red Ryder just goes
ahead and puts CRLF into the file on the Mac, but MacWrite and Edit are only
looking for CR as the end of line marker.  So I get unprintable characters
at the beginning of each line following the first.  If I send a file the
other way without the LF's, I get one long line in a file on the Vax.  The
unsightly LF's have to be there in order to get a file transfer from Mac to
Vax to work right.  MacKermit, on the other hand, has a MacWrite mode which
transfers text files correctly.  Does anyone know how to get Red Ryder to be
reasonable about this?  Red Ryder now has two strikes against it (it's not a
good terminal, and I can't transfer files with it).  If host mode doesn't
work, I'll just trash it.

On another topic, I'm traveling to Copenhagen for two weeks next month, and
I tenatively plan to take my Mac along.  Is this a good idea?  Will I have
any problems with customs?  Will I have any trouble getting a converter to
convert Danish electricity into something the Mac can swallow?  If these
questions sound stupid, please be tolerant, it's my first trip abroad.
-- 


				Paul Schinder
				Astronomy and Astrophysics Center
				University of Chicago
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From: paul@oddjob.UUCP (Paul Schinder)
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Subject: Red Ryder 5.0/Traveling with a Mac
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 02:06:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 02:06:38 1985
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