On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Peter Scott wrote:
> Wordpad is better than Notepad if any of your files come from Unix; the
> former handles the line terminators, the latter displays them as
> boxes. There are of course much better unbundled editors; gvim works nicely.
>
> Double clicking on a program will cause the output to flash in a DOS
> window and promptly go away. I use something like
>
> END { print "Done, hit <RETURN>: " and <STDIN> if $^O =~ /Win32/ }
>
> You will spend most of your excess time going, "Ok, just grep the files
> for the line containing -- oh, wait a minute --"
While the use of wordpad can be helpful in this regard I would have
thought that encountering a Unix LINE FEED file in a "Perl on Windows"
class would have been an opportune time to introduce how to deal with them
on Windows using perl. Recall that most Unices already have a working tr
and/or sed program whereas most Windows machines do not (unless they're
developers working with MKS, U/Win, Cygwin, etc.). You can use perl on
either/both unix or Windows to deal with the end of line problem.
For example, ftp a file over from unix to Windows specifying bin for
binary transfer then run:
C:\>perl -pe "s/\n/\n/g" myunix_file.dat > mywin_file.dat
problem solved - using perl.
Peter Prymmer
