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From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
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Date: 9 Feb 89 23:53:31 GMT
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In article <89Feb9.123853est.2662@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu> noworol@eecg.toronto.edu (Mark Noworolski) writes:
>Very frequently when I get stuff off the net I run into the problem of
>no carriage returns. It appears that UNIX stores text a little differently
>from Messdos.


Depends how you get it off the net. If you are using Kermit, you
should be able to set a switch to convert CR->CR/LF on downloading.
It's in the manual somewhere. The trick is to make sure kermit knows
it's a text file. Otherwise try this:

	while ((c=getchar()) != EOF)
	{
		putchar(c);
		if (c==13)
			putchar(10);
	}

/* did I get that right? no guarantees, it's just me rattling off
untested code again... */

---

Oh, if you're using XENIX doscp, there is a switch to control CR-CR/LF
translation. 

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