[Radiance-general] Can I safely convert linefeeds in cal files to line-returns for an easy life in DOS

[Greg Ward]

Hi George,

This should cause no problems -- the .cal interpreter ignores "white 
space" including carriage returns and linefeeds, except as word 
separators.

-Greg

> From: George Chadwick <g_a_chadwick at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: October 20, 2004 9:49:34 AM PDT
>
Hello Radiance gurus and other folks.

Asking from a standpoint of ignorance in Radiance/UNIX, will it do any 
harm if I convert all the supplied .cal files to DOS-readable files, by 
stripping out what I presume are the bare line-feeds – a UNIX trademark 
I presume -  and substituting DOS return characters, so they don’t 
cause unreadable/invisible characters and line overflows in my 
DOS/Windows word-processing apps?

As it happens, I am forced to use the command line in a DOS box in a 
Window$ environment to run the Radiance bin/programs.  I got these by 
installing DeskRad.  Thanks to obligatory corporate hardware/software 
upgrades I lost AutoCrap2000 forever, so I can't use DeskRad itself. 
 Undaunted I am hoping to learn to use Radiance directly in the 
DOS-box, hands-on from scratch.

Your humble novice in trepidation

George Chadwick