Adding programs

Igor Gueths igueths at attbi.com
Wed Apr 3 20:34:35 EST 2002


Hi Toby. Thanks for the info on that utility, I'll check it out when I get
around to it. It sounds really interesting though.

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
>
> > No, I don't think he does.  I have dos2unix and unix2dos.
> > Unfortunately, I don't remember if they were in the original Redhat
> > install.  Since I now use apt-get install just like you guys running
> > Debian I tend to forget these things.  (a big grin of pleasure)
>
> Hi all.
>
> I realise of course that fromdos, dos2unix etc are great, but if they're
> not present, what's wrong with tr?
> In case anyone hasn't heard of tr, well it's just great, for all sorts of
> things, mostly in scripts, but check out the man page, you can do all
> sorts of stuff, like change the case of characters, remove large amounts
> of blank space, whatever.  It's probably one of my favourite tools for
> manipulating text files.
>
> HTH
>
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