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Re: RACHAL Changeover
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Date: 
Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:37:41 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Timothy Gould wrote:
The upload is via an html form so I'm pretty sure it's not ftp (unless there's a
way for this to be automated from a form?). Willy made the original file in
MLCad by the looks of it, I then edited in MLCad and emacs for WinXP, Willy then
further edited the file (in a text editor?) and I tested it in MLCad (suggesting
it was either UNIX or DOS format) and uploaded it.

Being a vi user, I'm drawn to the natural conclusion that emacs must be the
culprit ;-).  (On a more serious note, I actually don't know what emacs does
with line endings.  I know that vi leaves them alone unless you specifically
tell it to convert.  I would guess that emacs does the same, but you might
check.)

--Travis



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  Re: RACHAL Changeover
 
(...) You have my pity ;) (...) I think it leaves them alone. Certainly I've never had any troubles with it converting one way or the other before. If you edit a Windows text file on a UNIX emacs it will show the extra ^R (or whichever is unused on (...) (17 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: RACHAL Changeover
 
(...) The upload is via an html form so I'm pretty sure it's not ftp (unless there's a way for this to be automated from a form?). Willy made the original file in MLCad by the looks of it, I then edited in MLCad and emacs for WinXP, Willy then (...) (17 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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