Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!stsci!roberts From: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Is there a MSDOS .Z uncompress utility? Keywords: compress uncompress .Z Message-ID: <2469@nemesis.stsci.edu> Date: 10 Apr 91 20:08:39 GMT References: <1991Apr7.203219.15740@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1991Apr8.172213.1606@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Apr9.083444.29597@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 Lines: 18 In article <1991Apr9.083444.29597@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@web-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: >>carriage return codes inexplicably transformed to ^Js. Any solutions, >>suggestions, etc? > >They were most likely UN*X text files. Remember, the EOL character(s) >are different for UN*X (LF only) and MSDOS (CR/LF). Yes. However, if the files aren't too big (<90kb or so?) you can read them under DOS with the MicroGnuEmacs editor (MG) which will understand the newline, and when you save the file, a CR-LF will end each line. The Tech Editor 2.5 doen't put the CR-LF in, though it will read the file correctly. That's too bad, because T can handle text files of arbitrary size, like ascii data files. -- Jim Roberts roberts@stsci.edu scivax::roberts