[GRASSLIST:6027] Re: moving layers from one machine to another

[Chris Fonnesbeck]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 12:19:44 +1300, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Chris, could you try to convert head and dbln files from UNIX to Mac
> > > (newline characters)?
> >
> > Radim, I changed the line endings to Mac, but I still received a bus
> > error on loading the layer.
> 
> For the record, Mac OS/X newlines *are* UNIX newlines.
> 
> 
> Some software takes it upon itself to translate text files on download
> to the local format, causing all sorts of mayhem. (e.g. Internet
> Explorer, some FTP & email software) MacOSX versions of Internet
> Explorer and MS Office actually automatically translate text files into
> the *old* Mac format. I'll leave it up to the masses to decide if this
> is a backwards-compatibility decision or a bug.
> 

The only thing I used to edit these files is vim. Otherwise, it went
straight from GRASS on Linux to GRASS on OSX.