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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:14:24 +0000 ()
From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
Cc: "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote:

> >    I've read numerous things about adding the CR-LF back into text files
> > for use with DOS, but what about the other way?? Is there a way to
> > remove
> > that annoying ^M from a DOS text file under FBSD?  I've tried many
> > things
> > but nothing short of removing them one-by-one seems to work.  

apple/mac uses CR
dos/win   uses LF/CR
unixes    use  LF

why didn't unix choose CR as the standard EOL?
(at least we'd be left w/only 2 standards)
what a mess of such a simple stupid thing!