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From: gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Dayna DOS Mounter or AccessPC
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.022153.25862@gsm001.uucp>
Date: 23 Feb 91 02:21:53 GMT
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Organization: Geoffrey S. Mendelson -- Software Consulting
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suarez@astro.as.arizona.edu (Jose Suarez) comments on my posting....
>
>In article <1991Feb20.024025.23869@gsm001.uucp> gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:
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>>If I move the file with Apple file transfer instead, it works fine.
>>
>
>I think the problem may be in the famous CR+LF vs just CR.  Macs use carriage
>returns and the end of a line, but Unix and MS-DOS use carriage return plus
>line feed.  Apple File Exchange knows that and probably translates accordingly.
>When you're saving as plain text, no such translation occures.  So, use AFE or
>a text utility (like Add/Strip or DeskZap -- there are millions of them) to makethose changes.


Sorry if I wasn't clear.  The unix system refuses to read the disk. If I
do a MDIR I get some of the directory then "unable to read fat......"


Geoff.
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