Re: Linux text issues I'm sure xywwweb can handle

["Raphael Tennenbaum" raphael@xxxxxxxx]

erm, ok, now I see I should have searched for Unix rather than Linux in the help file,
so I managed to neatly incorporate cr210 in the exporting routine. am open to
suggestions about the EOF marklet.


On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:14:20 -0500 (EST), Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:

>I seldom bothered thinking about EOF markers and carriage returns/line feeds, but
>in Linux -- well, I just don't know where to look in my U2 file.
>
>first, merging Linux-produced text into Xy works quite nicely. however, if I create
a
>file with SAvedDefined text and then give it to the Linux clipboard, that text,
when
>pasted into a Linux editor:
>
>1) appears to have an extra carriage return at the end of each line, and
>
>2) has some kind of marker at the end, what I thought at first was an EOF
>character. in Gedit this shows as a little tiny box with "001a" stacked in two rows,
>in other viewers it seems to be a period.
>
>is there a xywwweb routine which will convert the carriage returns and strip the
last
>marker in the file?
>
>I'm a bit confused, because I remember using xywwweb's zap26 in the past to get
>rid of the last marker, but though I've incorporated it in my routine, the character
>still shows up (and besides, am I remembering that the EOF was a Xy3
>idiosyncracy?)
>
>and again, Xy carriage returns make DOS-generated text files in Linux look as
>though they've doubled. again, I'd like to be able to incorporate a routine that will
>strip these in a little XPL program that will SAD defined text to a file for copying to
>the Linux clipboard.
>
>-rafe t.
>