Re: mac-unix translation


Subject: Re: mac-unix translation
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Sat Mar 30 1996 - 17:37:19 EST


> From: Oliver Wrede <owrede@khm.uni-koeln.de>
> To: zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu

> Wouldn't it be much wiser to default to 'binary' transmission and to enable
> CR/LF-conversion for .txt files only then?

It's possible to do this. In any AppleVolumes file (system, default,
or user), the extension "." is defined as the default extension. One
could have an AppleVolumes.system that read

        . BINA UNIX
        .txt TEXT UNIX

Or whatever. That way, each of us can be as wise as he likes.

:wes



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