[GRLUG] unix2dos?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 12:19 -0400, Eric Beversluis 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?

SOME editors handle it correctly.   For example - notepad.exe does not,
but wordpad.exe will work just fine.

There really isn't and problems with the files, it just depends on what
you want to do.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA