SImpletext and Pico

[Patrick Smith]

Jay Savage wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a method of transfering plaintext files between MacOS and Linux?  I have some webpages that I would like to work on on differnt machines, but any work I do in Pico or Emacs is unreadable in Simpletext, and vice versa.  Simpletext displays Linux {LF} and {CR} characters as those annoying boxes, and Linux editors display Simpletext lf and cr charaters as "^M".  I guess I'm dealing with an ASCII/UTF-8 conversion issue?  But where do I go from here?

On the Linux side, try editing the file in vim, with ':set 
fileformat=mac'.  (Warning: I've never done this, but am guessing here...)

Also see ':help fileformat' and ':help fileformats' in vim.
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