Palm to Android via Linux

[Shlomo Solomon]

I'm having a strange problem moving some memo files from my Palm Zire to a new 
Android phone. Since 2 of the 3 platforms I'm using are Linux (my PC and my 
phone), I think this is on-topic - so long as we don't get into an arguement 
about whether Android is really Linux or not ;-).

1 - I used jpilot to export Palm memo files to text files
2 - the files look fine in a Linux text editor (Kwrite, Kate, etc)
3 - I used Dropbox to move the files to my phone
4 - When I open the files on the phone (with various editors), there are 
strange line breaks (seem to be random - between words, in the middle of a 
word or even after each letter) - like this:
This is a tes
t to show
an exa
m
p
l
e
5 - I tried opening the files in Open Office (in Linux) and saving as .odt and 
again copied to the phone with dropbox
6 - The Android Open Office reader app now reads the files properly.

Any ideas why the original text files show this behaviour?

BTW - when I opened the files in Open Office (in Linux), I checked to see if 
there were un-printable characters, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. I 
even looked at the files in hexedit to see if there were any unusual 
characters, but found nothing unusual.

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Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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