From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 01:00:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA02110 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 01:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA02066 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 01:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA07400; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:59:47 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA09557; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:06:06 +0200 Message-Id: <199609250806.KAA09557@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:06:05 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm) Cc: jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu (Jeremy Sigmon), randyd@nconnect.net (Randall D. DuCharme), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX In-Reply-To: ; from hmmm on Sep 24, 1996 18:14:24 +0000 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.44 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hmmm writes: > 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 dos/win uses CR/LF VMS uses CR/LF > 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! > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de