[GRLUG] unix2dos?

[Mark Farver]

Dos2unix and unix2dos just change line endings in files.  Many ASCII
editors handle this automatically so it is less important than it once was.

If you are reading a text file in Unix and see ^M on the end of every line
running dos2unix will fix it.

Mark

Mark
On Aug 24, 2013 12:20 PM, "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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