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Subject: Re: Which php??
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Thu Jan 13 21:16:20 2011
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:10:25 +0100
> From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Which php??
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:41:15 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> >  I cut/pasted part of the config page to a yello w notepad.  It 
> >  unfortunately has those unfortunate DOS EOL things with the ^M.
>
> There's a simple answer to that waste of disk space (two bytes per line 
> break!):

Correct accounting is 'one _excess_ byte per line break'.
>
>  recode cp437..iso8859 <filename>

no need to install the port/package --

   tr -d '\r' <dosfile >unixfile

does the trick, with just a base install utility.