[GRLUG] unix2dos? No... FLIP.

[Matt Behrens]

On Aug 24, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:

> And Most things in Linux can and do deal with Windows erroneous ways of
> doing things.

I'm far from a Windows apologist, but if you fed a text file straight to a line printer without translation...

LF (Unix and Unix-like) would give you a stair-stepped printout, e.g.

foo
   bar
      baz

CR (Mac OS through 9) would give you a printout with each new line overprinting the last, leading to a black mess

CR+LF was the only one that would properly carriage-return and line-feed conventions.  Well, LF+CR would work too, but who does THAT?

So I wouldn't exactly call Windows' way "erroneous". ;)

But yes, a good tool can deal with whatever you throw at it.

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