Many thanks to those who offered suggestions for troubleshooting my
problems trying to import files into MPLAB. To review, files emailed to me
refuse to compile, although files entered directly into the editor work
fine. I'm using MPLAB v3.12.00 on a 75MHz Pentium running Win95. I have the
handicap of being from the Mac world. It doesn't help that I'm only a
visitor here in PC land, forced to emigrate by Microchip's refusal to
support the Mac platform. Yes, I know there are 3rd-party Mac tools now,
but they weren't available when I bought my laptop.

Several people suggested that control characters not visible on the screen
were messing things up. This was confirmed through use of the DOS utility
DEBUG. Now I see that in order to compile without errors, MPLAB is
requiring each line to end with 0Ah and 0Dh (CR & LF). This, apparently, is
how UNIX normally treats a text file. But other platforms typically use
just one of the control characters for ending a line.

Is there any way to force MPLAB's text editor to accept files created with
other platforms, short of transcribing them? I notice there is an option
for special treatment of control-Z, but don't understand why that would be
necessary.

Am I missing something simple here? I Read The Friendly Manual, the
sections on File Modes and Templates, but don't see the answer.

Regards,
Reg