<p>This smells of missing ^M's. Look for options to save or convert to windows format.</p>
<p>Sent from my Mobile, please excuse my brevity.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 01/06/2011 8:44 PM, "Saba Moshe" <<a href="mailto:sabamoshe@gmail.com">sabamoshe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:18:18 +0300<br>> From: Mordecha Behar <<a href="mailto:mordecha.behar@mail.huji.ac.il">mordecha.behar@mail.huji.ac.il</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:shlomo@the-solomons.net">shlomo@the-solomons.net</a><br>> Cc: linux-il <<a href="mailto:linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il">linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il</a>><br>> Subject: Re: Palm to Android via Linux<br>
> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=<a href="mailto:nPoMv4MERk0d9tQwdP9KTQYbedQ@mail.gmail.com">nPoMv4MERk0d9tQwdP9KTQYbedQ@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> I've encountered the opposite problem.<br>
> Files I create in a Linux text editor (Kwrite) don't open properly in<br>> Windows Notepad. I get the entire file on one line.<br>> Maybe there's something strange going on behind the scenes in KDE?<br>
> <br>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Shlomo Solomon <<a href="mailto:shlomo.solomon@gmail.com">shlomo.solomon@gmail.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> <br>>> I'm having a strange problem moving some memo files from my Palm Zire to a<br>
>> new<br>>> Android phone. Since 2 of the 3 platforms I'm using are Linux (my PC and my<br>>> phone), I think this is on-topic - so long as we don't get into an<br>>> arguement<br>>> about whether Android is really Linux or not ;-).<br>
>><br>>> 1 - I used jpilot to export Palm memo files to text files<br>>> 2 - the files look fine in a Linux text editor (Kwrite, Kate, etc)<br>>> 3 - I used Dropbox to move the files to my phone<br>
>> 4 - When I open the files on the phone (with various editors), there are<br>>> strange line breaks (seem to be random - between words, in the middle of a<br>>> word or even after each letter) - like this:<br>
>> This is a tes<br>>> t to show<br>>> an exa<br>>> m<br>>> p<br>>> l<br>>> e<br>>> 5 - I tried opening the files in Open Office (in Linux) and saving as .odt<br>>> and<br>
>> again copied to the phone with dropbox<br>>> 6 - The Android Open Office reader app now reads the files properly.<br>>><br>>> Any ideas why the original text files show this behaviour?<br>>><br>
>> BTW - when I opened the files in Open Office (in Linux), I checked to see<br>>> if<br>>> there were un-printable characters, but that doesn't seem to be the<br>>> problem. I<br>>> even looked at the files in hexedit to see if there were any unusual<br>
>> characters, but found nothing unusual.<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Shlomo Solomon<br>>> <a href="http://the-solomons.net">http://the-solomons.net</a><br>>> Sent by KMail 1.13.3 (KDE 4.4.3) on LINUX Mandriva 2010.1<br>
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> <br>> Windows needs the CRLF pair while Linux provides the LF only at the<br>> end of a text - line<br>> <br>> Saba Moshe<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Linux-il mailing list<br>
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