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From: edwin_l_king@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: Is there an editor which ends lines with linefeeds?
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Date: 29 Mar 90 13:29:36 GMT
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Reply-To: Edwin L King <elk@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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>A carriage return is the standard line terminator on a mac, but in unix land
>the natives want linefeeds to terminate lines. I would like to use a mac 
>editor to work with files on our sun (via CAP), but I don't want to have to
>fuss with constantly running the files through my mac2unix converter program.
>Is there an editor that can put linefeeds, and not carriage returns, at the end
>of text files?
>	Willard Korfhage

  The shareware DA McSink (avalable commerically as Vantage) does
this. I never could figure out what McSink was for until I started to
have to communicate regularly with Unix machines. It wraps paragraphs
in much the same way the emacs does. In fact it does not do the
sandard screenwrapping that most mac editors/wp's do. Stuff I create
or edit in McSink needs no changes to go to a unix machine. It
includes the ability to do conversions mac2unix and unix2mac by adding
  This recommendation with the additional info that the terminal
program I use is ZTerm (excellent shareware product, I recommend it)
and I use sz/rz (zmodem) protocal for up/downloads to sun workstations
(I have found some protocols that DO change the line-endings -- when I
used to use the old version of xmodem on the Sun I had to convert
<cr>s to <lf>s, but when I used Kermit I did not. With the combination
of McSink and zmodem, no changes are necessary.

elk