[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe this happens because *nix uses only a carriage-return as its
> end-of-record marker, whereas winders is expecting a carriage-return/line-feed
> combination. Many winders editors such as UltraEdit (look it up on the 'Net),
> either recognizes this automatically and compensates, or allows you to tell the
> program you are reading a *nix-generated file. I am not sure if you can tell
> Linux editors to write CR-LF's
>
> Bryan
>
> "Eunice Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/28/2000 05:11:56 AM
>
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: (bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings)
> Subject: [newbie] Copy Files
>
> I saved a /var/log/*file on a floppy. In order for me to view it in Linux,
> I have to type 'pico <filename>' , and I can view the file as it's written.
> When I look at the same file in Windows it looks like one big paragraph,
> instead of the 200 + lines of entries of the original file. Is there a way
> to save the file in Linux so that it can be viewed in it's original format
> in Windows?
>
> >in Linux the file looks like this:
>
> 1 adffsgh
> 2 dfgtg=hjeeur
> .
> .
> .
> 200 ftryu =iop;p;
>
> >in Windows the same file looks like this:
> 1adffsgh2 dfgtg=hjeeur........200 ftryu =iop;p;
>
> Thanks
> Eunice
Open it in wordpad or a web browser. They both understand the CR CR/LF problem.
