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From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang)
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Subject: Re: Zoo file for msdos: change ``LF'' to ``CR'' for ascii files
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Date: 18 Apr 91 02:37:11 GMT
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/* Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.COM> wrote */:
* 
* If a text file was originally archived on a UNIX system and is
* unarchived under MS-DOS, you will need to do newline conversions.
* 
* The best way to do this is to use my "flip" program.  It was posted to
* comp.sources.misc about two years ago.  If you're lucky, it may be
* available for ftp from somewhere.  I don't email it to end users to
* minimize traffic, but if any well-known major archive site needs it I
* will send it.

After my post under the current subject line, many people
replied that flip is a great program. But none of them mentioned where
I get it. I tried simtel but no luck. a path is abolutely necessary for
simtel! So if some one knows, please post.

The ways I use with the program are:

1) zoo at unix end and then transfer to msdos (ftp, for example)
2) read into micro-emacs and resave it. (micro-emacs is available from
                                         clarkson)
3) use WP5.1 ``convert'' to convert it from WP4.1 to WP5.1 and then to ASCII. 
   No kidding, it works.
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