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. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug