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Re: How do I remove CR/LF from text file
- To: cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: How do I remove CR/LF from text file
- From: Brian Keener <bkeener at thesoftwaresource dot com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:36:14 EST
- Reply-To: bkeener at thesoftwaresource dot com
Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> Can't you directly generate your file as DOS text? either by writing on a
> text-mount,
That was how I finally got what I wanted - but since needing it that way was
an afterthought and not normal operation - then I don't want it that way
permanently but only would like to know how to convert if I need to again.
> As you decribe the problem (wordpad understand the file but notepad displays
> black rectangles instead of the EOL I think), you need not convert to UNIX
> from DOS but the other way round: native Windows programs need CF/LF
This would be true - I thought that was what I explained but I may have left
something out - so sorry.
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