From openoffice-users  Tue Mar 04 06:44:44 2003
From: "Michael S. Mikowski" <z_mikowski () yahoo ! com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 06:44:44 +0000
To: openoffice-users
Subject: Re: [users] conditional page breaks and non-breakable blocks -- formatting for books, like XyWrite
Message-Id: <200303040144.44929.z_mikowski () yahoo ! com>
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Ok, text files.  If they were only so easy...

Recently, I had fun with a business associate who sent me a zip file from a 
mac.  Here is what I had to do:

- Convert from BinHex format hexbin. 
# hexbin zipfile.zip 
See: 
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/macutils-2.0b3-12mdk.i586.html

- Convert dos2unix all resulting files
# cd /my/zip/dir
# for i in *; do dos2unix $i; done
#
See: 
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/dos2unix-0.8.0-1mdk.i586.html

Only then did the files work in "true" ASCII.

If the files are from mac or dos, perhaps that is the trouble?

Hope this helps,

Sincerely,

Mike

p.s. Saw your web site.  I'd be interested in your new book,  Please keep us 
updated.

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:31 am, RBE wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2003 5:59 pm, Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> > RBE, are you still having converter difficulties?  What files
> > specifically?
>
> Only .txt (or text) files give me converter problems.  Word, Internet
> and other files seem to open easily.
>
> I don't know if it's related, but if I go to Tools > Options >
> Load/Save and select HTML, OOo crashes with an unrecoverable error --
> no error message at all.  I've seen no help or even suggestions for
> either issue.  Both happened after getting an upgraded java file (1.4),
> but happen whether I load java or not.