On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 23:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yeah, but I never really trusted those programs, since
> (on Solaris at least) they always whinge about character
> sets or locales or something.

never had any such problems (linux and solaris)

> And it seems my suspicion is not unwarranted:
> 
> [mlh@localhost mlh]$ od -xc stuff
> 0000000 0a0d
>          \r  \n
> 0000002
> [mlh@localhost mlh]$ cat stuff|dos2unix|od -xc
> 0000000 000a
>          \n  \0
> 0000001
> 
> 
> What the hell is that null doing there?

what's wrong with it?

Dave.

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