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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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