in reply to End of line issues when using Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows (for Mac) products
MSWord and other Office tools use the "old" Mac line ending (CR aka \r aka 0x0d) when producing plain text files. Other text-producing tools (including, but not limited to, TextEdit, Emacs, Nano) use the standard Unix ending (LF aka NL aka \n aka 0x0a):
All of the above files (created under Mac OS X) are one digit per line (as viewed in the application in question).-> od -c word.txt 0000000 1 \r 2 \r 3 \r 4 \r 5 \r 0000012 -> od -c textedit.txt 0000000 1 \n 2 \n 3 \n 4 \n 5 \n 0000012 -> od -c emacs.txt 0000000 1 \n 2 \n 3 \n 4 \n 5 \n 0000012 -> od -c nano.txt 0000000 1 \n 2 \n 3 \n 4 \n 5 \n 0000012
Use ikegami's code from above reply to convert existing old-style files and use one of the non-Office text editors for editing plain text (choose the one you are most comfortable with; other options available on Mac OS X include vi or vim).
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