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From: tempest@csuchico.EDU (Kenneth Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: help needed to transfer file from IBM disk file to Mac
Message-ID: <1192@csuchico.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 89 07:41:52 GMT
References: <10872@pur-ee.UUCP>
Reply-To: tempest@csuchico.UUCP (Kenneth Lui)
Distribution: usa
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <10872@pur-ee.UUCP> aynang@ed.ecn.purdue.edu (Yang Aynang) writes:
>Cheer,
>
>... But my problem is that the new file I got ( at
>the Mac ) has a square box in the first column of every line. I can use the
>editor to delete it manually, but that's dumb.

They are caused by the MS-DOS's convention of using CR-LFs to separate
lines, unlike Apple's convention of just CRs. You can select change CR-LF
to just CR when within Apple File Exchange. It is on the menu labeled
either: IBM<->Mac or Mac<->IBM...depending on which way you wish to
transfer. Choose Text translation, and you'll get a dialog box along with a
whole mess of other things you can do.

Ken
tempest@csuchico.EDU