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From: frankk@mcvax.UUCP (Frank Kuiper)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Text files -> MacPascal files???
Message-ID: <1106@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 07:44:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  6 07:44:33 1986
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In article <1105@mcvax.UUCP> Frank Kuiper <frankk@mcvax.UUCP> writes:
  >
  >We want to convert ordinary text files to Pascal-type files.
  >
...
  >So, how can we change a text-only file to a Pascal file??
  >
  >There should be a trivial solution, so we're probably
  >missing something ... :-)

We really did miss something.
It appears that the file we want Pascal to read, comes from a CDC machine,
which puts extra \0 characters before every line in the file.
(Don't ask me why, I don't use that system :-))
MacWrite doesn't display those characters either, but they are there,
and you can delete them!

So, after we deleted those \0 characters, Pascal was very happy
with reading the file.

               Frank
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