From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 21:35:06 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 6020916A4CF for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:35:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mpls-qmqp-01.inet.qwest.net (mpls-qmqp-01.inet.qwest.net [63.231.195.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7B9643D49 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:35:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bulk_mail@siegel-tech.net) Received: (qmail 57569 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jan 2005 21:35:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (63.231.195.13) by mpls-qmqp-01.inet.qwest.net with QMQP; 27 Jan 2005 21:35:05 -0000 Received: from siegel-tech.org (HELO ?192.168.245.30?) (70.58.29.136) by mpls-pop-13.inet.qwest.net with SMTP; 27 Jan 2005 21:34:59 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:37:53 -0700 Message-Id: <200501271537.53361.bulk_mail@siegel-tech.net> From: "Aaron Siegel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200501271232.06466.aj@siegel-tech.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: MacPerl for Freebsd: Convert Macintosh files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: aj@siegel-tech.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:35:06 -0000 I am not really trying to convert, but automate the renaming of Macintosh files. I would like to extract the information stored within the fork of a Macintosh file and then rename the file to a Windows file naming scheme. The Mac distribution of Perl has those capabilities with included in the MacPerl module. On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:18, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"