Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:06:22 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@xtalwind.net> To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> Cc: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>, "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.95.960924220300.2448B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924181124.293F-100000@hmmm.alaska.net>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > 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? You are asking the question backwards. Unix predates apple and dos by about a decade, more or less, so why didn't THEY choose LF? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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