Palm to Android via Linux

[Amos Shapira]

This smells of missing ^M's. Look for options to save or convert to windows
format.

Sent from my Mobile, please excuse my brevity.
On 01/06/2011 8:44 PM, "Saba Moshe" <sabamoshe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:18:18 +0300
> From: Mordecha Behar <mordecha.behar at mail.huji.ac.il>
> To: shlomo at the-solomons.net
> Cc: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: Palm to Android via Linux
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> I've encountered the opposite problem.
> Files I create in a Linux text editor (Kwrite) don't open properly in
> Windows Notepad. I get the entire file on one line.
> Maybe there's something strange going on behind the scenes in KDE?
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Shlomo Solomon
>> http://the-solomons.net
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>>
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> Windows needs the CRLF pair while Linux provides the LF only at the
> end of a text - line
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> Saba Moshe
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