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Re: MMA 3.0 The new is wearing off

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg7146] Re: MMA 3.0 The new is wearing off
• From: tburton at cts.com (Tom Burton)
• Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 01:57:45 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Brahea Consulting
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 11 May 1997 03:05:41 -0400, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica you wrote:

>In article <5kp5q7$1p3 at smc.vnet.net>, sch at mitre.org (Stu Schaffner) wrote:

>I have received two helpful replies privately. One important fact that
>I did not mention was that I am also trying to port all of this from
>Macintosh to Windows 95, and it is on Windows that I am discovering
>that things don't work. I have a Macintosh version of MMA 3.0 at work
>and a Windows version at home, and I have very little time right now at
>work to play with all of this. 

Stu,

Now that I know you have this problem, let me suggest a simple step that you might have time to do: launder all *.ma files as "text" files in Microsoft Word on the PC before importing them into MMA3. Microsoft Word can ingest text with Mac-style end-of-line characters, and it will write out a file that is correct in the native PC OS.

I did this in reverse to move *.ma from PC to Mac. It helped a lot and really didn't take long at all.

Of course, any scheme that reliably converts text from Mac to PC would do just as well. I just happen to have used this one and can vouch for it.

Gook luck!

Tom
Tom Burton