Re: PowerMac kernel eccentricity
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg1816] Re: PowerMac kernel eccentricity
- From: rdieter at mathlab41.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 00:03:34 -0400
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
In article <DDDr6t.B2K at wri.com> wmm at chem.wayne.edu (Martin McClain) writes: > Dear mathgroupers- > Advice from Paradise > "...this issue has come up a couple of times in different places. The > PowerMacintosh native version of Mathematica handles \r and \n differently > from other versions of Mathematica... ." Where the PowerMac uses \r > (return), all other kernels use \n (newline). > > The Fix > In the package script, just above BeginPackage, I wrote > > This seems basically to solve the problem, and it is invisible to the user. > But if WRI continues to make print variants in the kernels on different > machines, this stuff could get out of hand. It is not WRI's fault neccisarily. Mac, MSDOS, and UNIX all treat text files a little differently. I bet your problem may arise when porting items between any of these platforms. I personally have seen odd things (= lots of extra spaces between paragraphs, etc) when porting documents from MSDOS to UNIX, because MSDOS uses a \r AND \n and the ends of line, whereas UNIX only uses \n. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME) Research Associate Voice: (402)472-9747 Department of Mathematics and Statistics FAX: (402)472-8466 University of Nebraska - Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/