[GRLUG] unix2dos?

[Topher]

That's pretty old school, and you're probably fine not worrying about it.

That said, if you want to see the issue, write something in vim or emacs and open it in notepad.

Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:

>I'm reading in Sobell, _Linux Commands..._, where he talks about
>unix2dos being necessary to send Linux text files to a Windows machine,
>and am confused.
>
>I think that I successfully send text files back and forth between
>Linux, Windows and Mac all the time without having to use this utility.
>Is this something that is obsolete in more modern operating systems? Or
>do the text editors now handle this automatically?
>
>Thanks.
>
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