[Ifeffit] error message by import

[Robert Gordon]

Just opening the file.txt in wordpad, and saving is enough to avoid that 
message
when importing.

-R.

On 4/8/2015 9:43 AM, Bruce Ravel wrote:
> On 04/08/2015 10:15 AM, Zimina, Anna (IKFT) wrote:
>> When I try to import the attached file.txt, the warning message appears
>> (see screenshot.png). After clicking OK the file is imported.
>>
>> The log file (dathena.log) and the message (log.txt) are attached.
>>
>
> When Athena is given a file, it runs a sequence of tests to try to
> figure out what kind of file it is looking.  For example, it tries to
> recognize an Athena project file and interpret it as such before
> trying to interpret the file as column data.  File name and extension
> is not a reliable way to do this, so it examines the content of the
> file.
>
> Your file is confusing one of the tests.  It's easily fixable.  I will
> push a solution to github shortly and include the fix in the next
> installer release.
>
> So, what's the problem with your file?  Well, yours is a rather
> strange one for the year 2015.  The newline character used is CR,
> which is what was used by Mac OS9 and a few operating systems that
> were common in the 1980s.  Pretty uncommon kind of file these days.
> To be honest, I am pleasantly surprised that Athena reads it correctly
> at all.
>
> In fact, the test that gives that error message is something I wrote a
> few weeks ago.  I certainly did not test it against a file with CR
> line termination.
>
> Until I make a new installer (which won't be for several weeks -- I am
> just about to go on travel), you have a couple of options.  One is to
> simply live with the error message and click the box away. Annoying,
> but serviceable.  The other is to run your data files through some
> kind of filter that changes the end-of-line character.  Searching
> Google for "convert CR to CRLF" turns up several possibilities.
>
> HTH,
> B
>
>

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