Someone wants me to do some cosmetic work on a pre-existing web site, and after popping into ftp to pull out the index.html file, the page won't open in notepad.txt, rather parts appear to be replaced with ascii code.
is there software to use a pc to view/change a page originally created on or with a macintosh?
Using Macintosh to write a web site
There is a PC program named ASCon-A "The Mac-to-Win-and-back text converter". It is a small freeware program, and it does a great job. I use it all the time.
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http://www.medienwerkstatt-online.de
Click on downloads, then scroll down to the bottom of the page.
- Mike
I've never had any problems going back and forth between windows and unix systems with plain text. The only disclaimed to that is that UNIX and Windows handle newlines a little differently, Windows does a carriage reterun then a line feed while unix just does a carriage return or something like that. I don't see how that would screw up the file the way you are saying it does though...
There is a program on... well at least on Solaris UNIX called rmbs. It should fix up the carriage return/line feed thing on a text file so that windows can look at it...
However, have you tried the ultra simple solution of just going to the website and viewing source to see if you get something nicer?
There is a program on... well at least on Solaris UNIX called rmbs. It should fix up the carriage return/line feed thing on a text file so that windows can look at it...
However, have you tried the ultra simple solution of just going to the website and viewing source to see if you get something nicer?
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yes, when I go to the web site and take the source code I can read it, but for the purpose of ftping the files back and forth, I don't want to use tertiary code, I want to edit the primary file directly.
when i pull the index.htm file out via ftp, and attempt to open the file in notepad, it has unrecognized characters.
when i pull the index.htm file out via ftp, and attempt to open the file in notepad, it has unrecognized characters.
kwirl wrote:yes, when I go to the web site and take the source code I can read it, but for the purpose of ftping the files back and forth, I don't want to use tertiary code, I want to edit the primary file directly.
when i pull the index.htm file out via ftp, and attempt to open the file in notepad, it has unrecognized characters.
That's just... odd.
There's always telnet and vi! ;)
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