SImpletext and Pico

[Jay Savage]

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On Saturday,  15, 2002, at 11:13AM, Matthieu Amiguet <matthieu.amiguet@blue=
win.ch> wrote:

>Le Jeudi, 13 Juin 2002 01.29, vous avez =E9crit :
>> Can anyone recommend a method of transfering plaintext files between Mac=
OS
>> and Linux?  I have some webpages that I would like to work on on differn=
t
>> 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=20
>"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 conve=
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>anything to anything with commands like the above.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Matthieu
>

Matthieu,

Thanks for the info.  I already downloaded BBEdit light (as per another sug=
gestion), but this is--I think--much more what I had in mind.  It always am=
azes me that people write off both Pico and SimpleText so easily.  They may=
 not be the most powerful tools in the world, but they have some very impor=
tant pluses, in terms of ease of use, and, most importantly, availability o=
n machines that I don't have the authority to install software on.

Thanks,

--jay