This smells of missing ^M's. Look for options to save or convert to windows format.
Sent from my Mobile, please excuse my brevity. On 01/06/2011 8:44 PM, "Saba Moshe" <sabamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:18:18 +0300 > From: Mordecha Behar <mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il> > To: shl...@the-solomons.net > Cc: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il> > Subject: Re: Palm to Android via Linux > Message-ID: <BANLkTi=npomv4merk0d9tqwdp9ktqyb...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I've encountered the opposite problem. > Files I create in a Linux text editor (Kwrite) don't open properly in > Windows Notepad. I get the entire file on one line. > Maybe there's something strange going on behind the scenes in KDE? > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm having a strange problem moving some memo files from my Palm Zire to a >> new >> Android phone. Since 2 of the 3 platforms I'm using are Linux (my PC and my >> phone), I think this is on-topic - so long as we don't get into an >> arguement >> about whether Android is really Linux or not ;-). >> >> 1 - I used jpilot to export Palm memo files to text files >> 2 - the files look fine in a Linux text editor (Kwrite, Kate, etc) >> 3 - I used Dropbox to move the files to my phone >> 4 - When I open the files on the phone (with various editors), there are >> strange line breaks (seem to be random - between words, in the middle of a >> word or even after each letter) - like this: >> This is a tes >> t to show >> an exa >> m >> p >> l >> e >> 5 - I tried opening the files in Open Office (in Linux) and saving as .odt >> and >> again copied to the phone with dropbox >> 6 - The Android Open Office reader app now reads the files properly. >> >> Any ideas why the original text files show this behaviour? >> >> BTW - when I opened the files in Open Office (in Linux), I checked to see >> if >> there were un-printable characters, but that doesn't seem to be the >> problem. I >> even looked at the files in hexedit to see if there were any unusual >> characters, but found nothing unusual. >> >> -- >> Shlomo Solomon >> http://the-solomons.net >> Sent by KMail 1.13.3 (KDE 4.4.3) on LINUX Mandriva 2010.1 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/attachments/20110601/a7117193/attachment.html > > > Windows needs the CRLF pair while Linux provides the LF only at the > end of a text - line > > Saba Moshe > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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