Re: Saving text file

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

At 15:38 1998-09-03 +0200, Matt Kaminer wrote:
>When I save a file in linux and view it in DOS it appears on one line (the
>endline thingie Ctrl-whatever)
>
>how do i convert that to read in dos so when i view the txt file in
>notepad it doesnt come up all screwy!

Unix/Linux stores text files with a line feed (LF) terminating each line of
text. DOS machines use a line feed and a carriage return (CRLF). Mac's use
a carriage return (CR).

 The best way is to use an editor that understands LF as end-of-line. I use
Programmer's File Editor <http://www.lanc.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/>. It's
the best freeware editor I've seen for MS Windows 16/32 bit platforms.
Another solution is to transfer files via FTP using ASCII mode. This will
take care of the translation transparently.


 Tony
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