I had some speculation as to just what dos2unix actually *does *. Andy White provided the information, for which I am grateful.
I knew it "regularised" the line endings, but some colleagues thought that wiithin - line peculiarities could be corrected as well. Didn't know about setting modes within vi and/or vim. Thanks for that. William Bennett I On 31/08/2014 4:25 pm, "Andy White" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Final question: dos2unix will fix up the line endings. Is there anything > > else it fixes? > > yes, apparently: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/dos-util/uuencode/dos2unix.c > > I'm not sure if this is the latest source; I didn't bother to check. > > Even if you can't read C, the comments at the top make it clear. > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
