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From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales)
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Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
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Date: 11 Feb 89 01:16:57 GMT
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In article <9717@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> arya@eros.Berkeley.EDU
(Manish Arya) writes:

	Incidentally, UNIX terminates each line of an ASCII file with a
	line feed (10 decimal).  MSDOS, however, ends each line with a
	carriage return (13 decimal) and line feed.  UNIX ends files
	with ^D (4 decimal) while MSDOS uses ^Z (26 decimal).

A minor correction:

UNIX text files *DO NOT* end in a ^D.  UNIX text files (unlike DOS text
files) have *NO* special end-of-file character.

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