I may be mistaken on this, but I think they use a \r for a line ending. At least its only a single character. I will bet that hundreds of thousands of hours have been wasted on dos/windows because they use \r\n for their "newline".
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Chris Lusena <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am wonder if Macs have the same text format as Windows xor as a Unix, xor > even worst a third incompatible way of signaling an end of line? > > -- > Chris > > --- On Thu, 4/30/09, Ian Bruseker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Ian Bruseker <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Semi-OT: AppleScript Editor > > To: "CLUG General" <[email protected]> > > Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 5:27 PM > > 2009/4/30 > > TekBudda <[email protected]> > > > > Essentially what happens is that we are deploying Mac's > > on the > > > > network & the laptop need to have the WiFi set-up. > > One of my > > > > co-workers had created a script that does the whole thing > > when you hit > > > > run. The only lines that need to be changed are the SSID > > & the key. > > > > The file is labelled as filename.scpt whihc is an > > AppleScript file. > > > > Any editor in cluding the ones suggested just garbles the > > information > > > > & you cannot edit the 2 lines needed. > > > > > > > > The probl;em is that the only way we can change the script > > at this > > > > point is to use a Mac OS X machine...which isn't a huge > > deal, but just > > > > slow things down a bit. Some guys have Mac's but > > mopst of us have > > > > WIndows machines, hence the need for a program to run on a > > WIndows > > > > box. > > > > > > > > Hope that clears everything up. > > > > > > > > > > I'm starting to wonder > > if my assumption on them being plain text is incorrect. I > > just did a little googling and found references to > > "compiling" AppleScript files. I'm wondering > > if that's what you have is the compiled output. This > > page talks about being able to save the script output in > > various formats, including plain text: > > > > > > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/applescript/conceptual/applescriptx/Concepts/work_with_as.html > > > > > > Maybe you just need to get back onto one of those Macs and > > try to do a Save As in Script Editor and save it out in a > > different format. Then you could edit it in any editor. > > > > Ian > > > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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