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From: lorner@csuchico.edu (Lance Orner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48SX Kermit Problems
Keywords: 48, file-transfer
Message-ID: <1990Mar23.194338.13911@csuchico.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 19:43:38 GMT
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In reference to Kermit transfer with the 48s:

I've gotten it the 48 to work with my own jury-rigged cable on the Macintosh,
using White Knight software.  Everything works well and good, except that
the 48 expects linefeeds after every line, but the Macintosh will usually
fight with them.

On most word processors on the Mac, all of the linefeeds will show up
as little square boxes at the beginning of each line.  A program like 
Microsoft Work will seem to have all of the original lines printed like a
huge run-on sentence, with little boxes separateing them, but some processors
are a little better than this.  With Word, if you copy one of those little
boxes onto the clipboard, do the global change function to change the box
(which you paste into the field) to a newline characted (in this case '^n'),
the screen will be formatted correctly.  Then, when you save it, save the
file as a text file _with line feeds_, then the file will transfer correctly.

I had set up my terminal program to strip out all of these linefeeds completely
when downloading automaticlly so I wouldn't have have to worry about them 
later.  But now, I had to turn that off, so the linefeeds will come through,
so I can change them to newline characters that don't mess up the Mac, and
then back to linefeeds on the way out.

Sort of a struggle, but you can sort of streamline the system when doing
a lot of files at once.  Does this make any sence?

----Lance Orner
     California St. Univ., Chico
       lorner @ csuchico.edu