Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ncar!tank!uxc!deimos!rutgers!mit-eddie!killer!texbell!sw1e!uucibg From: uucibg@sw1e.UUCP (3929] Brian Gilstrap) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Text formatting when uploading to UNIX system Message-ID: <1224@sw1e.UUCP> Date: 25 Jan 89 14:14:51 GMT References: <1320@pbhyc.PacBell.COM> Reply-To: uucibg@sw1e.UUCP ([5-3929] Brian Gilstrap) Organization: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Lines: 30 In article <1320@pbhyc.PacBell.COM> jdf@pbhyc.PacBell.COM (2N650Q-Jack Fine) writes: >I have been using a mac now for several months. I am a convert from a >MS-DOS based system. I have gotten the mac to do everything the MS-DOS >system did and much more er...except for one thing. When I upload to a >UNIX system my text files are at best unformatted. At worst, total >garbage. I am using Red Ryder 10.3. My word processor is Fullwrite and I >am saving my files to ascii before sending. When I monkey around with the >options I can get the files transferred but they appear to VI as a single, >very long, line and all formatting is gone. Any ideas? Get another DC(other >than RR) program? Different format for upload files? Settings on RR? > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks > >Jack Fine I believe that the you can get around this by diddling with the settings during transfer. I suspect your problems are due to CR/LF versus NL kinds of things. As a result, you many need to diddle on both ends. I've forgotten if RR has a "Add a newline to the end of each line" option or not. This is probably what you need to do (or something like it). I'm sure there's someone out there who can provide info... Brian R. Gilstrap Southwestern Bell Telephone One Bell Center Rm 17-G-4 ...!ames!killer!texbell!sw1e!uucibg St. Louis, MO 63101 ...!bellcore!texbell!sw1e!uucibg (314) 235-3929 #include