Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:14:24 +0000 () From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu> Cc: "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924181124.293F-100000@hmmm.alaska.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960924102856.15006D-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > > I've read numerous things about adding the CR-LF back into text files > > for use with DOS, but what about the other way?? Is there a way to > > remove > > that annoying ^M from a DOS text file under FBSD? I've tried many > > things > > but nothing short of removing them one-by-one seems to work. apple/mac uses CR dos/win uses LF/CR unixes use LF why didn't unix choose CR as the standard EOL? (at least we'd be left w/only 2 standards) what a mess of such a simple stupid thing!
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