[OT] Cross Mac Platform Text Editing

[Alex Rice]

On Feb 19, 2004, at 8:53 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> When moving text files created or modified with TextEdit on Mac OS 
> 10.2 to Mac OS 9, I find no OS 9 text editing app that will open them, 
> even those stored as plain text.

You sure you aren't creating RTF files with TextEdit?
Also, TextEdit has

> How do other deal with this?  Is there a recommended cross Mac 
> platform text editor?  [Preferably something without "Microsoft" in 
> its pedigree.]

A text file is a text file is a text file (except for line endings and 
text encoding)

I use TextEdit occasionally, and never have problems opening the files 
Unix or Windows text editors.

Maybe you are dealing with a file type issue and the apps you are 
trying on Mac OS 9 are saying: "no text type in resource fork. eh! 
bail."

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Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com