[Coco] OS9 text file format

edward jaquay ejjaquay at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 10:55:00 EST 2020


On linux it is trivial to convert line feeds to carriage returns using the
tr command:  tr '\n' '\r' < in.txt > out.txt Similar commands can be used
for Windows and Mac.   Another thing to consider is the possibility that
some editors might leave other control characters in the files or be
storing data in 16 bit UDF formats.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 05:21 Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:

> I agree. . Notepad++ is a nice program and it handles OS9 text files
> well without trying to convert them over to CR/LF or LF only. I think
> that all of the source files for the NitrOS9 project should be converted
> over to OS9 format as most of them are not. Right now it is practically
> impossible to import the files into a native OS9 environment and use
> them without first converting them. If we have an editor that handles
> the OS9 text files under Windows and Linux I don't think there's any
> good reason to continue using files with CR/LF or LF line terminators.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On 1/5/2020 3:08 AM, David Ladd wrote:
> > Wayne,
> >
> > As tfadden pointed out, I would also suggest Notepad++.  I use it on all
> my
> > Windows systems and also under my Linux systems using Wine.  It is so
> > popular it is even available in the Ubuntu software list. :D
> >
> > Here is a link to the website for it.
> > https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
> >
> > It has a LOT of features compared to the built in notepad that comes with
> > Windows.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
>
>
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