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From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
Message-ID: <940@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 89 19:19:25 GMT
References: <6489@hoptoad.uucp>
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From article <6489@hoptoad.uucp>, by pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar):
> noworol@eecg.toronto.edu (Mark Noworolski) wrote:
>> 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.

With Microsoft C on MSDOS, their concept of a text file allows for rather
simple translation from UNIX to MSDOS:
open the file, fgets a line, fputs a line.
The output is an MSDOS CR/LF file.
If you run the program again, magic!, no change.
Apparently, in 'text' mode, Microsoft C accepts LF-delimited lines,
but always writes CR/LF-delimited lines.
A snippet of code:

       while ((fgets(inline,LINESZ,input)) != NULL ){
	       fputs(inline,stdout);
	       }
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