This is a silly question, I know. But, how can I set the POVRAY editor
(version 3.0, Windows 95) to display correctly a scene file loaded from the
net. I get all lines of code on one line, with black rectangles where the (I
guess) newlines are. I fix this now by loading the file into the DOS editor
and force a save action, but I take it there is some less laborious way.

Any help?
Frans

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That is a common problem... text in unix ends lines with <LF> only, and
DOS/Windows uses <CR><LF>.  And yes, the most universal "always" there tool to
convert with is DOS's edit command... just open, then save, then exit.  If you
search the net for names like "unix2dos" or:
unix and dos and "text format" and convert
or some such query.. there are several tools out there..

Brandon

F.VERBAAS wrote:

> This is a silly question, I know. But, how can I set the POVRAY editor
> (version 3.0, Windows 95) to display correctly a scene file loaded from the
> net. I get all lines of code on one line, with black rectangles where the (I
> guess) newlines are. I fix this now by loading the file into the DOS editor
> and force a save action, but I take it there is some less laborious way.
>
> Any help?
> Frans
>

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Photon wrote:
> 
> That is a common problem... text in unix ends lines with <LF> only, and
> DOS/Windows uses <CR><LF>.  And yes, the most universal "always" there tool to
> convert with is DOS's edit command... just open, then save, then exit.  If you
> search the net for names like "unix2dos" or:
> unix and dos and "text format" and convert
> or some such query.. there are several tools out there..
> 
> Brandon
> 

You can also use wordpad .. it will recognize the unix <LF>, and saves
as a DOS text file .. it works for me ..

Other solution : try to ftp it between a unix and DOS, using ASCII
format ...

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>You can also use wordpad .. it will recognize the unix <LF>, and saves
>as a DOS text file .. it works for me ..


Yes, I know the root of this evil, and I am about to spend some lines of
FORTRAN to write a converter. But, could the new editor for POVray for
Window please Please PLEASE do this obvious conversion automatically?

Frans

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Photon wrote in message <35B7D442.16DA1ED6@dtmf.com>...
>
>
>That is a common problem... text in unix ends lines with <LF> only, and
>DOS/Windows uses <CR><LF>.

To make things worse, the Macintosh uses only the <CR>!

Mark

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