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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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