On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a text file edited using jmacs (plain text editor), but when I open
> this text file under win9x notepad (pls don't get mad at me ;-> ) the format
> is all screwed up. How do I convert this linux ascii text file to
> msdos/win9x ascii text?
>
This is probably because Unix only uses ASCII 0x0a for its line
terminator, whereas DOS uses ASCII 0x0d and 0x0a to terminate lines. You
can write a small perl or awk script to fix this. It gets worse if you
have a Mac, because Macs use only ASCII 0x0d as the line terminator...
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