<p dir="ltr">Dos2unix and unix2dos just change line endings in files. Many ASCII editors handle this automatically so it is less important than it once was.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you are reading a text file in Unix and see ^M on the end of every line running dos2unix will fix it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mark</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mark</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 24, 2013 12:20 PM, "Eric Beversluis" <<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm reading in Sobell, _Linux Commands..._, where he talks about<br>
unix2dos being necessary to send Linux text files to a Windows machine,<br>
and am confused.<br>
<br>
I think that I successfully send text files back and forth between<br>
Linux, Windows and Mac all the time without having to use this utility.<br>
Is this something that is obsolete in more modern operating systems? Or<br>
do the text editors now handle this automatically?<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
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