[OS X TeX] Install fail

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Thu Sep 3 19:37:55 EDT 2015


> On Sep 3, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 3, 2015, at 5:54 PM, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> It came from the email that way. AlphaX is Unix-oriented, but it can use Windows and Mac line endings. I was glad to see that it could change them for the whole file with one click.
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> What email program are you using? If it's Mail the problem may be before you receive the email. I'm truly amazed that anything would touch an attachment of any kind!
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

I just noticed that Adam's email also suggested the possibility that a virus scanner could be doing that. Do you use one of those? Can you configure it to leave line endings alone? I'd guess that even zipped files will get messed up by that sort of thing. From what I've seen they cause many more problems than they solve---at least on the Mac.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)








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