Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
Summary: Some DOS programs don't care
Message-ID: <7685@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Feb 89 05:04:13 GMT
References: <89Feb9.123853est.2662@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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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.

A lot of DOS programs don't really care about carriage returns which
is handy when you run a unix machine as a network DOS file server.

MKS vi, WP 5.0, Jove, LIST, Microsoft 'C' and (I think) Microsoft Word
will take such files with no complaints and will add the CR's if you
write the file back out.  I'm sure many other programs work the same
way, although TYPE'ing or PRINTing a file from DOS will not work without
the CR's.  Several communications programs will adjust 'on-the-fly',
kermit has the 'set file type text' command and sb/rb have the -a option
for text files.

Les Mikesell