Macintosh (old) - Lines end with only a characterįledermaus will have problems reading the old style Macintosh ascii files that end only in a. Macintosh (Mac OSX) - Lines end with only a character Windows - Lines end with both a followed by a character
Here is how the different platforms end lines in ASCII files. Mac OS X is based on a Unix core thus Mac OS X ascii files have the same default as Linux nodays. Things are further complicated because the Macintosh platform made a substantial change when Mac OS X was released. They include the carridge return character 'referred to as ' and the linefeed character 'referred to as'. There are two different characters that are not visible that are used to indicate the end of a line. How the end of the lines are stored is different depending on if you are using Windows, Macintosh, or Unix. Take for example the following 3 line file: How ASCII text files are represented are different on different operating systems. The problem is how we handle ASCII text data files that end in a carrige return character. The differences between platforms end of line characters can cause a problem when importing point files produced on older Macintosh computers.
