Re: HELP! - Linefeeds and Mac Vs Windows

2012-03-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 11.03.2012 at 20:09 Uhr -0700 RevList apparently wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. In fact, I use Notepad Plus and it was opening the original one saved by using file: and it looked fine. Perl just didn't like it. I switched now to binfile: to save the file and NotePad still sucks, but

Re: HELP! - Linefeeds and Mac Vs Windows

2012-03-11 Thread RevList
Dave Cragg on March-11-12 at 5:03 PM -0700 wrote: >If you check the file sizes you will see that the Windows one is 75 bytes >bigger than the Mac one. It looks like the Mac version has either cr or lf as >the line ending character and the Wind version >has crlf. > >NotePad won't break text on o

RE: HELP! - Linefeeds and Mac Vs Windows

2012-03-11 Thread Ralph DiMola
9:03 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: HELP! - Linefeeds and Mac Vs Windows On 11 Mar 2012, at 21:48, RevList wrote: > I have compared the two versions of the files in editors that allow me to show the invisible characters and they look identical. > Comparing the two in BBEdit indicat

Re: HELP! - Linefeeds and Mac Vs Windows

2012-03-11 Thread Dave Cragg
On 11 Mar 2012, at 21:48, RevList wrote: > I have compared the two versions of the files in editors that allow me to > show the invisible characters and they look identical. > Comparing the two in BBEdit indicates the files are identical, yet when I > open them in NotePad, they clearly are not.

Re: HELP! - Linefeeds and Mac Vs Windows

2012-03-11 Thread RevList
Bjoernke von Gierke on March 11, 2012 at 2:07 PM -0700 wrote: >you probably need to use "binfile:" instead of "file:" when you're saving. >Because when you use "file:", all line endings will be converted to whatever >the current platform default line endings >are. If you do use binfile, beware

Re: HELP! - Linefeeds and Mac Vs Windows

2012-03-11 Thread Bjoernke von Gierke
you probably need to use "binfile:" instead of "file:" when you're saving. Because when you use "file:", all line endings will be converted to whatever the current platform default line endings are. If you do use binfile, beware that you also need to do mactoiso or isotomac depending on what yo