Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:06:05 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm) Cc: jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu (Jeremy Sigmon), randyd@nconnect.net (Randall D. DuCharme), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX Message-ID: <199609250806.KAA09557@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924181124.293F-100000@hmmm.alaska.net>; from hmmm on Sep 24, 1996 18:14:24 %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924181124.293F-100000@hmmm.alaska.net>
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hmmm writes: > 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 dos/win uses CR/LF VMS uses CR/LF > 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! > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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