>Where you may hit a snag is the deceptively simple case of a text >file. Should you produce a text file with one of the Mac-native apps >(such as TextEdit), then attempt to read it on a Windows machine, you >will discover one of the primary differences between Macs and >Windows: line ending characters. And just to further confuse things, >Linux uses yet another, different scheme.
Actually, many (most?) text-based apps on the Mac can detect the presence of Mac/Win/Unix line endings and handle them accordingly. I suggest using the free Text Wrangler (bbsoftware.com) because it gives you easy control over the system written to the file. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
