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- From: maley@micro.cs.umn.edu (Michael P Maley)
- Subject: Re: ProcommPlus for Windows questions...
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- References: <1993Jan23.232107.11147@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan25.214306.6919@dcatlas.dot.gov> <1993Jan26.023116.3398@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <C1I1rD.B3x@unix.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:12:56 GMT
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- In <C1I1rD.B3x@unix.portal.com> claebaur@shell.portal.com (Tony S Annese) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan26.023116.3398@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> hayesj@spot.Colorado.EDU (HAYES JAMES MICHAEL JR) writes:
- >>2) There was a recent post of a script to strip LFs from text file
- >> uploads to unix systems. Can this be fleshed out to explain its
- >> use?
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- >It's use is that when you upload a ascii file to a unix system if you dont tell
- >your terminal program to strip the linefeeds than it will take your linefeeds
- >and convert them to ^M's in your file when it gets to the Unix system. So what
- >the script does is searches for ^M and deletes them from the file.
-
- Correct me if I am wrong, but you can accomplish the same thing by
- going into the dialog box for ascii transfer options and setting
- the strip LF on upload checkbox. Also, you can run dos2unix
- after the upload on the Unix system.
-
- Mike Maley
- maley@cs.umn.edu
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