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From: rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: ATASCII to ASCII
Message-ID: <177@sherpa.uucp>
Date: 15 Nov 89 01:41:43 GMT
References: <19891112204048.5.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Organization: Personal System Computing,  St. Petersburg, FL
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From article <19891112204048.5.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>, by jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning):
> 
>>    Date: 10 Nov 89 09:03:58 GMT
>>    From: sun.acs.udel.edu!gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.edu  (Gary D Duzan)
>>
>>			       I believe that the ATASCII -> ASCII program inserts
>>    CR-LF pairs, so on the Unix machine you will have to remove the CR's. 
> 
> Right.  It's Atascii to *Ascii*, not Atascii to unix.  There's a
> compile-time switch you can set to make it generate *nix tex, rather
> than Ascii.

I believe ASCII only describes a character set, not a file format.  As
far as I know, ASCII says nothing about what character (or combination
thereof) should be used as a line terminator.

Ending a line of text with a single LF (as all UNIX systems I've used
do) is as much ASCII as ending one with a CR/LF pair (like MSDOS and CPM
do).  Both CR and LF are valid ASCII characters.  Atari's $9b line
terminator is not.

You can reword your comment to:
> Right.  It's Atascii to *MSDOS*, not Atascii to unix.  There's a
> compile-time switch you can set to make it generate *nix tex, rather
> than MSDOS text.

Roger
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