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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:41:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com>
To:        Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Windows ASCII files -> Unix ASCII Files
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008081538470.19857-100000@deepthought.granfalloon.com>
In-Reply-To: <399069B1.1AB04AFF@wmptl.com>

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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote:

> Is there any sort of utility to rip the ^M characters from the end of
> each line in an ASCII text file as produced by Windows? I've tried using
> a simple regexp with perl, as well as using chop/chomp, but niether seem
> to work, any ideas?
...
> I figure there has got to be some easy way of doing this? Right now
> we're FTP get/binary, then FTP put/ASCII 'ing in order to convert; which
> needless to say is a pain in the neck.
> 	Any ideas or suggestions would be helpful.
>
> -- 
> Nathan Vidican
> webmaster@wmptl.com
> Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
> http://www.wmptl.com/
> 
	The unix2dos port (in /usr/ports/converters) also includes
dos2unix which will do the job for you (it's easy to convert a bunch of
files with this program)

-Caleb
(bokonon@rochester.rr.com)



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