Asciipocalypse Mac OS
Asciipocalypse Mac OS
What do I use to save ASCII text on a Mac? Somebody at the Apple store told me the answer is TextEdit, but when I went to save a file just now my choices were rich text (.rtf), HTML, Word format, or XML. No ASCII in the bunch.
So, is there a program on here that does what Notepad does? Is there one out there somewhere...??
--PS
Apple Computer introduced their own eight-bit extended ASCII codes in Mac OS, such as Mac OS Roman. The Apple LaserWriter also introduced the Postscript character set. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) developed the Multinational Character Set, which had fewer characters but. In the Keyboard system preferences panel, check 'Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar'. Find the Keyboard menu bar icon (on the right side of the menu bar), click it, and select 'Show Character Viewer'. In the Characters window that appears, find the 'View' pop up menu and select 'Code Tables'. Select the Unicode coding tab. The chart below may be used to type extended ASCII characters on the Mac from the keyboard. In addition, extended characters on the Mac are usually different than Windows because Windows used the ISO Latin-1 Character Set and the Mac uses the Roman character set. Typing an ASCII Character on the Mac.
The MacPorts Project is an Open Source community initiative to provide an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either commandline, X11 or Aqua-based Open Source software on the macOS operating system.
MacBook 2.16-GHz, 2GB-RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.10), After 28 years of DOS and Windows... a Mac.
Posted on Jul 26, 2007 10:23 PM
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This document is a Mac OS X manual page. Manual pages are a command-line technologyfor providing documentation. You can view these manual pages locally using theman(1) command.These manual pages come from many different sources, and thus, have a variety of writingstyles. For more information about the manual page format, see the manual page for manpages(5). |
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