SImpletext and Pico

[Matthieu Amiguet]

Le Jeudi, 13 Juin 2002 01.29, vous avez écrit :
> 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?
>

Try "recode ap..latin1 file.txt" to convert from mac to unix format and 
"recode latin1..ap file.txt" to do it the other way.
Anyways, don't forget to have a look to the recode man page, you can convert 
anything to anything with commands like the above.

Hope this helps.

Matthieu