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From: u8902741@cs.uow.edu.au (Kiddie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP on Unix: Text files
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.022854.27523@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 8 Jun 91 02:28:54 GMT
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yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee) writes:

>Even if we do get ZIP for Unix, don't we still have the same problem
>of Unix using <LF> for end-of-line, while DOS uses <LF>-<CR>, so that 
>if we download ZIPped text files to our PC's, we still have to run
>them through things like WordPerfect's text save to get the <CR>'s?
>Of course, a short program would work, I suppose, but maybe the inclusion
>of some kind of DOS option in the upcoming ZIP would solve this thing
>most gracefully?  

If you want some programs to do this for you, ive written and optimised
one for unix and one for dos, it now processes ( on the dos machine )
about 2 megs a minute.
See ya
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