Problem with Unix/Mac conversion

Donald T. Major, II sasdtm at unx.sas.com
Wed Apr 21 14:24:55 UTC 1999


I don't think that's quite it--text mode transmission would automatically
convert the existing <CR>s into <LF>s, which would keep the character count the
same.  He'd only get extra characters if he went through a 
Windows/OS/2 platform
as an intermediary.

Tim Olson wrote:

>  >I have a Squeak image that was used on a Mac.  I now want to use it on a
>  >Unix platform.
>  >The image works well except that the sources are unreadable, i.e. the
>  >text displayed for
>  >a method in the browser is not the source code of the method.
>  >
>  >Does someone knows how to address this?
>
>  Did you copy the sources and changes file over to the UNIX machine in
>  text mode or binary mode?  The sources are stored with a 'cr' as line
>  termination (instead of linefeed, as is standard under UNIX), so if you
>  copied the file over in text mode, extra linefeeds would be appended,
>  changing the length and entry points for the various methods.
>
>  If that is the case, copy the sources and changes files over again in
>  binary mode.
>
>       -- tim

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