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From: truett@belton.nec.com (Truett Smith)
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Subject: Re: Zoo file for msdos: change ``LF'' to ``CR'' for ascii files
Summary: Vern Buerg's LIST does it too.
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Date: 18 Apr 91 20:44:21 GMT
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In article <71539@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
>/* 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.
>-- 
>xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!xiaofei / v118raqa@ubvms.bitnet

An additional method for the MS-DOS user to convert text files is to use
Vern Buerg's LIST program.  Just invoke the program to list the file to be
converted, mark the top and bottom lines of the file (Alt-H will tell you
how to do that), write out the marked text to a file (it will prompt for a
new file name), and exit the program with Escape.  The file that was
written out will have the newlines automatically converted.

Truett Smith
NEC America
San Jose, CA