schwepes on 21 Jan 2006 15:51:09 -0000 |
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Douglas Muth wrote: > On 1/19/06, schwepes@netaxs.com <schwepes@netaxs.com> wrote: > > This is a modest problem but extremely frustrating. > > For years, and from the name of the program, some of you will guess how > > many years, I have used Multimate as a word processor. This was a DOS > > program by the same folks that brought you DBASE. I converted files > > from that to ASCII.txt and then tried to use them in a Linux environment, > > Suse to be precise, and mtype refuses to read the whole file. It drops > > in the middle of a line where there should be no bizarre characters to > > be read. Mcopy gives an error messege when I try to invoke it. > > I really want to be able to trash the machine and gain the workspace but > > I don't want to waste time typing everything out again in vi or gnu. > > Can you paste here the exact error message that you got from Mcopy? > Also, could you try running the "file" command on one of these ASCII > files? plain_io: Input/output error file read: Input/output error I also tried mread -t to the same effect. > > If memory serves, MS-DOS files have lines that end with a carraige > return character (CR) followed by a linefeed character (LF). In > Linux/UNIX, lines are terminated with only a linefeed. It is possible > that the problems you are having are caused by incorrect line > terminators. > > You may also want to see if your machine has the"dos2unix" utility on > it, which converts MS-DOS text files to UNIX text files. > dos2unix did not ring any bells on the machine. bs > -- Doug > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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