Download from Mathsource
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg1512] Download from Mathsource
- From: supermac at bart.nl (stecchin)
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 03:17:53 -0400
I have experienced some problems downloading .m files (packages) from Mathsource to my Mac. The files arrive as text files and when I open them with MMA everything seems ok, but when I execute the file I get error messages. This is because of the different way computers deals with line feeds and carriage returns. I can see this by saving the loaded file with MMA. Now it has become a MMA file and the next time I load it I can see the "missing character" sign in place of the LF/CR characters. I can use find and replace to solve the problem, but it's lengthy and annoying. Is there a better way to get the files with the corect characters right away from the Net? I normally/preferrably download with Netscape 1.1 "save link" command, but I could also use Fetch or something else if necessary. Thanks in advance Alessandro Stecchina