Unix import of a DOS spreadsheet...

[Jeff Harrison]

--- On Tue, 9/7/10, Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at verizon.net> wrote:

[Fairlight wrote]

> > Can I just be the first (and probably the last) to
> say, "WTF?!"
> > 
> > I honestly can't tell what you're on about, as the
> above doesn't parse in
> code
> > -or- in English--at least not for me.
> > 
> > mark->

> From: Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at verizon.net>
> Subject: RE: Unix import of a DOS spreadsheet...
> To: "'Fairlight'" <fairlite at fairlite.com>, filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 10:34 PM
> Mark,
> 
> \n = ASCII 10 or NL(new Line for Unix)
> 
> \n= ASCII 13/10 (CR\NL carriage return\New line) for
> Windows
> 
> Therefore \R\n on a Unix box looks for a new line for the
> record end.
> 
> On a Windows box \R\n import looks for a carriage return
> and a new line
> CR\NL
> 
> This eliminates the byte problem on a windows box using
> import \r.
> 
> Richard
> 

WTF?! :-)

Richard, can you post some actual code to perhaps demonstrate what you are talking about?  I'm not getting it either.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
Author of JHImport and JHExport.