Hello, I had the need to add carriage returns to a text file created on my mac so I could read it properly on my braille device. After several hours of experimentation from articles found on google, I discovered that the only way to accomplish this was using the “vi” program in terminal. Here are the steps:
1. open the terminal program. 2. interact with the terminal window with vo shift down-arrow. 3. if the file is not in your home directory, change to the appropriate folder with the “cd” command. 4. Open the file with the vi editor with “vi file” 5. type: “:set fileformat=dos” 6. Now save the file with “:wq” Remember that the quotes around the above commands are NOT to be entered. There may be other approaches, but this one is quite simple once you use it a few times. Chris -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
