[MacPerl] Re: Newlines

["Mark F. Murphy" <markm@powerperl.com>]

At 4:16 PM -0400 10/12/97, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 11.31 10/12/97, Mark F. Murphy wrote:
>>Am I misunderstanding something or do I have to convert all my existing
>>perl files from Unix newlines to Mac carriage returns?
>>
>>MacPerl seems to not like a Unix based text file... it won't run the
>>script.  However, if I use BBEdit and change it to Mac based it runs fine.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>
>Just what you said, convert it to Mac CR (\015) instead of UNIX LF (\012).
>Most text editors do this, along with gobs of other utilities, and you can
>make a MacPerl droplet to do it as well:

Well... I was hoping I didn't have to translate the files first.  I was
kinda hoping MacPerl would work with either transparently.

mark

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