From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 21:18:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE2616A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:18:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E6243D39 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:18:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43) id 1CuH1u-000P3Z-Jb; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:18:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200501271232.06466.aj@siegel-tech.net> References: <200501271232.06466.aj@siegel-tech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Message-Id: From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:18:15 -0700 To: "Aaron Siegel" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MacPerl for Freebsd: Convert Macintosh files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:18:19 -0000 On Jan 27, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Aaron Siegel wrote: > Hello > > I need to convert the some Macintosh files to a Unix/Windows format. > Has any > one been able to install MacPerl, Mac::Files, or Mac::MoreFiles on > their > FreeBSD system? Can you recommend another solutions for converting > Macintosh > files? I have look at Macutils but it did not work. > What kind of files? text files? Are you trying to convert the line endings from the Mac standard to the Unix standard (which is different than the Windows standard). My remembrance is that Mac files end in RETURN (ctrl-M) while Unix files end in LINE FEED (ctrl-L) and Windows has both. Anyway, if you are trying to convert Mac text files (like perl) to a Unix text files, just use FTP from the Mac to the Unix system in TEXT mode, not BINARY mode. Chad