Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!ukma!psuvax1!hsdndev!dartvax!mars!nic!news.cs.brandeis.edu!news!morgan From: morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dylan Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: ZIP on Unix: Text files Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 22:57:43 GMT Sender: usenet@news.cs.brandeis.edu Organization: Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu's message of 6 Jun 91 06:04:50 GMT In article <3029@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee) writes: Date: 6 Jun 91 06:04:50 GMT Hi, an elementary question most likely, but... Even if we do get ZIP for Unix, don't we still have the same problem of Unix using for end-of-line, while DOS uses -, 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 '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? I was using QEdit for a while, but got Epsilon instead, and I have discovered that it is really quite easy to deal with the difference with those two because they are very quick... I just load in the file I want to change and make the editor write it out again... takes a couple seconds... Perhaps when Phil Katz comes out (if he does) with a unix version of Zip, he'll make it so that any version will change text files for you on the fly (while unzipping perhaps) if you request it... -- -<>Dylan<>- MA EMT-M, CA EMT-1A, BEMCo 107 Dylan Kaufman Major in Computer Science morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Brandeis University, Waltham, MA ------<< Support your local Emergency Medical Services >>------- One can never have too much RAM or too much disk space. -- Ancient American Proverb, c. 1980