From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 09:51:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25288 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rgate.metricom.com (ricochet.net [192.216.106.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25253 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Black (mg131-147.ricochet.net [204.179.131.147]) by rgate.metricom.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05391 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3248117C.58C3@ricochet.net> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:51:08 -0700 From: Gordon Rios & Jennifer Melvin X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: DOS to UNIX file transfers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I use vi to look at a file that I have copied over from DOS, I see a bunch of ^M characters, but they don't show up when I "cat" a file. I know they are carriage returns of some sort, but do they cause problems? Also, when I try to transfer a manpage (e.g. man chmod > chmod.txt) and transfer that to dos, I get a bunch of block characters and an unuseable mess. What am I doing wrong? -- Gordon P. Rios HM: rios@ricochet.net (415-327-1219) WK: Gordon_Rios@scudder.com (415-403-0728) Menlo Park, CA