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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:38:49 +1100 (EST)
From:      Richard Lyon <rlyon@oznet07.ozemail.com.au>
To:        Juan Savioli <jcs@dhi.dk>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: dos2ux
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970312213508.206A-100000@rlyon.mynet.au>
In-Reply-To: <97Mar12.101039gmt.27781-1@gateway.dhi.dk>

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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Juan Savioli wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> could anybody tell how to get rid of all the strange characters
> which appear when I get a file from DOS. I work also in 
> a HP machine and there we have a command called dos2ux,
> but we do not have it in FreeBSD.
> 

I assume you are talking about text files and the problem is CR/LF 
translation.

The command 
             mcopy -t source destination

will copy a file and perform the appropriate translation.
mcopy is part of mtools which is available as a package or port. 


Regards Richard ....




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