From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 19:07:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03742 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper19b.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03712 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA02517; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:06:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:06:22 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: hmmm cc: Jeremy Sigmon , "Randall D. DuCharme" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > 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? You are asking the question backwards. Unix predates apple and dos by about a decade, more or less, so why didn't THEY choose LF? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------