Paul O. BARTLETT | Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Re: missing word lists

• Autor: Paul O. BARTLETT (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Re: missing word lists
• Data: 2002-11-10 20:23
• Mesaje: 376 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, P Bjorn Madsen wrote (excerpt):

> Hm.... I don't know anything about Mac, but I think there is some
> kind of misunderstandings here. I'm almost 100% sure that you can
> handle a "zip" archive. And all the files you are talking about are
> simple and plain text files.

    However, different operating systems and computers -- e.g.,
Windows, Linux/Unix, and Macintosh -- do NOT store "simple and plain
text files" in the same way, and this can cause problems.  The
difference is in what "invisible" character or characters is/are at
the end of a line to signal to the operating system that the end of
a line has been reached.  All three of those operating systems do it
differently, so a "text" file means three different things.  There are
utilities to convert among the three formats, but one has to have the
utilities to do so.

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Paul Bartlett
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