[pac at fortuitous.com: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fortuitous Technologies Releases Linux Training Manuals Under GPL.\]

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Greg -
My slackware distribution includes two utilities that operate as filters,
one called "fromdos" and another called "todos" which do the trick.  
Chuck


On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> The reason they look like garbage is because linux or unix files don't have
> cr/lf pairs like DOS files do; they just have lf to end the line. What I do
> myself, is to import the file into my bns, search for control j, and replace
> every instance of that with control m control j. Then, either I would read
> the file in the bns, or upload it back to the PC. Since I got tired of doing
> this, and since I couldn't find a conversion program for it on the net, I'm
> in the process of  writing a program to convert between DOS, unix and MAC
> files.
> Greg Nowak
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Poehlman <poehlman1 at home.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [pac at fortuitous.com: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fortuitous Technologies
> Releases Linux Training Manuals Under GPL.\]
> 
> 
> > is there a way that these can be viewed in a dos editor or a windows
> > equivalent?  they open fine in windows but are full of rubbish.
> > Thanks!
> >
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