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From: vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vernon Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.apple2
Subject: Re: GS Shrinkit
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.213335.28464@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 90 21:33:35 GMT
References: <1990Aug27.173535.15370@ecn.purdue.edu> <12969@netcom.UUCP> <1990Aug31.103713.7797@ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1990Aug31.103713.7797@ecn.purdue.edu> coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) writes:

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>them.  To get the file back intact I had to load it into MicroEmacs and
>save it again.  It displayed fine in Emacs and after being saved worked
>everywhere else????  Any thoughts on this or a way to make it a little
>easier.
>

It could be that the file uses linefeeds (control-j) rather than returns 
(control-m) to mark the end of a line. I don't know for sure, but this 
might confuse whatever software you're using and it displays the "?" which
in general means "there's a control character here"

Though I'm sure that anyone on the net could do a better and faster job,
I'm writing a little program in assembly (my first real AL program folks!)
which will convert all control-J's to control-m's and vice versa. I manage
the Apple section on a unix-based BBS, and people had been complaining that
the text they uploaded came back as if there were no returns in them. This
is because unix uses (or so it seems) control-j (not -m). In any case I was 
hoping to write a little ditty to take care of this. (If I were writing it 
in BASIC I'd be done by now!)

>Slowly learning...

me too!

>-RLC
>
>coxr@en.ecn.purdue.edu     American Online: Rich Kid
>
>-Rich


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