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From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
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Subject: Re: Files created on IBM clones
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Date: 11 Mar 91 21:38:13 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.155026.3504@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
>   I created a C program using the editor supplied by Turbo C 2.0 on
>an IBM clone, copied this to a diskette, then read it into the NeXt.
>Something went wrong somewhere along the way.  The file seemed to be
>missing the last line and had what seemed to be invisible characters
>which were also messing things up.  The file also looked a little 
>different when I looked at it using (1) ed called from Terminal
>(2) Write Now.

Does Turbo C's editor save it as straight text?

And are you aware that IBMs use CR/LF while Unix only uses one of them? (CR I
think).
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