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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh-->ProDOS
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MARCELO@phoenix.princeton.edu (MARCELO) writes:

>.. So you see taking a file that is in ][ format and then trying to 
>convert it back to ][ format without converting it to Mac inbetween yeilds 
>something that neither tha Mac nor the ][ will understand ..

You don't have to. mac text format is a superset of ][ text format.

both machines use positive ASCII to represent the standard characters.
both machines use Return ($0D) as the line seperator.

The Mac & GS/OS define characters >127 as being the Mac foreign/special
character set.

AFE provides a text translation mainly to do things like converting tab
conventions (which it lets you set), stripping control characters, and
changing line seperators, which is important sometimes because unix uses
Line Feed ($0A) and some printers require CR-LF pairs.

You can transfer Mac and Apple text files back and forth and they will work
even if you use binary mode.

From Unix, or another mainframe is a different story however.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu