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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: Problems with Alpha.5 DOSFS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.203727.13972@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:37:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.215221.10527@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
- > Unfortunitly the format of DOS and unix files is rather different.
- > DOS expects a carriage return and line feed at the end of the line,
- > and a CTRL-Z at the end of the file. Unix expects only a line feed.
-
- Fortunately, the MS-DOS FS can do DOS<-->UNIX text translation in the
- kernel, if requested. It isn't perfect, but should be okay for most
- practical purposes.
-
- smount -t msdos -o conv=b ... -> binary only (default)
- smount -t msdos -o conv=t ... -> text only
- smount -t msdos -o conv=a ... -> automatic switching (based on the
- file extension)
-
- If all else fails, there are still the manual conversion tools fromdos
- and todos ...
-
- > Your best bet is to write to the author of joe rcarter@wpi.wpi.edu
- > and ask if he can ad a DOS mode to the editor.
-
- And don't forget to add a DOS mode to EMACS, vi, awk, sed, grep, tr,
- Perl, ... ;-)
-
- - Werner
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