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From: richardh@killer.UUCP (Richard Hargrove)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: zoo and MSDOS vs. UNIX
Message-ID: <2062@killer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 19:17:36 EST
Article-I.D.: killer.2062
Posted: Wed Nov 11 19:17:36 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 02:33:20 EST
References: <1181@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Summary: MS-DOS --> Unix files: use tr

In article <1181@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
> MSDOS delimits lines in files with CR/LF, UNIX with just LF.
> 
> zoo a bunch of files unde one OS and un-zoo the archive under the
> other, and you have to edit every file.
> 
> Or am I missing something...
> 

MS-DOS files brought over to *ix can have the superfluous '\015's stripped 
out with 

	tr -d "\015" *

There is no standard tool running on MS-DOS to achieve the converse,
but then the Unix-based toolset is quite a bit richer than MS-DOS's.

richard hargrove
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