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In article <568@amd.UUCP> jimb@amd.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
> 
> [ What is this thing called munch....]
> 
> Does anyone know a simple way to remove, or prevent the entry of
> those little boxes that show up in a document downloaded with xmodem
> to MacTerminal and then edited with MacWrite.  I assume they are
> newlines.
> -- 
>  Jim Budler
>  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>  (408) 982-6547
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I have never used Macterminal for file transfer yet, but I suspect that
the little boxes mentioned are the so called non existant character boxes.
In the fonts of the Macintosh is included a definition for displaying a
non-existant character (usually a small rectangle, try key-caps with shift
and option held down). This thing is displayed for every character that
you (an application) try to display, but which was not defined in the
font.
This all then leads me to the conclusion that the little boxes mentioned
are in fact some control-character. My hint is that it is a linefeed, since
the Macintosh only uses Carriage return to get to a new line.


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			Dolf Starreveld
			Computer Science Department
			University of Amsterdam
			The Netherlands

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