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This wizard converts end of line characters
from one Operating System (PC/Mac/Unix) format to another.
Notes are further below.
Technical Notes
In plain text files (see Plain text files?),
special characters are used to mark where the end of each line is. The
special characters used differ from one Operating System to the next:
- PC/MS-DOS/Windows uses the character 13 followed by character 10
- Unix and Amiga uses character 10 on its own
- Macintosh uses character 13 on its own
- Mainframe systems like the IBM AS/400 don't even use an end of line
character, but rely instead on knowing how many characters are in each line or record,
and then they assume a line break after that many characters have been read.
You need to know how many character per line/record in order to successfully
convert one of these files (normally this is 132 characters per record).
Note that simply converting end of line characters will NOT successfully
convert a file from, say, Macintosh to Windows format unless the file is a plain
text file.
A plain text file is one that does not include any formatting, fonts, colors
or images. It consists purely of one ASCII character after another. Word
documents are NOT plain text files, because Word saves all kinds of special
information with the file. A plain text file can be opened and edited in
Notepad.
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