Re: [MacPerl] can't open file with strange characters

[Jeremy Lee <jeremy@cdsnet.net>]

on 6/12/98 5:51 AM , Michael Stearns  wrote:

>I am saving some web documents as "source" from Netscape and running
>them through a macperl script that I have.
>
>Some of the documents return a "cannot open" error.
>
>I notice, when I open these documents with simple text, that they have
>square-boxe characters in place of where the line breaks should be.
>
>Can anyone explain what the square boxes are doing there and what I need
>to do to be able to open the files with macperl?

It's probably returning some sort of Unix linefeed instead of a mac 
return character.  Either run it through something that deals with this 
(BBEdit) or write a translator yourself.

Jeremy

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