On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 08:38:31AM -0000, Petr Novotny wrote:
> On 22 Dec 99, at 5:46, Frederik Lindberg wrote:
> > They are just the message, but in dos/CRLF format. There are several ways
> > to convert them. The easiest if to ftp from the OS/2 box to the unix box
> > into the ~Maildir/new/ folder using "ascii" mode.
>
> Huh? FTP the easiest? On my PC, the easiest was
> tr -d "\r" <input >output
> Putting it into a for... cycle is left to the reader as an excercise.
Exactly this is why ftp is easiest. The files need to be moved anyway,
and it's not trivial to set up the for loop right the first time,
especially for someone who might be used to GUI and ne to unix. Anyone can ftp,
and almost anyone can type "ascii" before doing it. YMMV.
Fred Lindberg, Inf. Dis., WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA
