[wplug] CRLF

J Aaron Farr farra at apache.org
Mon Feb 9 19:26:53 EST 2004


Quoting Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net>:

> Ever since I started at CMU a year ago, I've driven faculty and staff mad 
> with my reluctance to use Micro$oft data formats.  Unfortunately, my 
> much-vaunted plain ASCII format has a substantial snag: when I produce 
> documents in unix, the lines are not terminated in a Windows-Friendly 
> fashion, and my document ends up being unreadable.
> 
> Is there any way to use the standard *nix tools to convert the CRs (or LFs 
> - I forget which is which) in an ascii document to CR/LF for windows text 
> editors?
> 
> -Brandon

try:

  dos2unix
and 
  unix2dos

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  jaaron      <http://jadetower.org>



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