Re: From a MAC to a PC - HTML files

At 5:20 PM +0000 3/23/00, Arcady wrote:
>I went through this problem with BBEdit a few months ago.
>
>MAC, PC, and UNIX all have different characters for what is a return. One of
>the three formats uses both the methods the other two use. The other two use
>either 'line-return' or 'new-line' or something like that...

Carriage-return and new-line (or line-feed) are the typical names 
given to these two types of line terminators. DOS uses both, Mac uses 
carriage-return and UNIX uses new-line. UNIX was first, FWIW.

>Anyway, see if there's a preference in GoLive for using the PC version of a
>return character. There was such in BBEdit though it took me a while to find
>it.

BBEdit does handle this as mentioned, but I've found something even 
better. Check out DropStrip at 
<http://world.std.com/~mattm/dropstrip.html>. Drop any file or group 
of files on it and they convert to Mac. Hold the Command key down and 
they will convert to DOS/Windows. Hold the Control key down and they 
will convert to UNIX. I've been using it for several years and it 
works very nice and simple. It mentions being in beta, and has 
apparently ceased development, but it works as advertised.

>
>
>>A question was posed to me which I don't have the answer for, and
>>look to my fellow colleagues for an answer.
>>
>>A person using GoLive on MAC found that when transferring the
>>files to a PC (by floppy), the carriage returns are all out of
>>whack. Making it very difficult to work with the files. I had
>>suggested downloading the pages from the Server and save them on
>>a floppy disc.
>>
>  >Any better ways to handle something like this?

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Mike Schienle                                 Interactive Visuals, Inc.
mgs(at)ivsoftware.com                  Remote Sensing and Image Processing
http://www.ivsoftware.com/         Analysis and Application Development

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