A text file on Unix and a text file on Windows are basically the same. With ONE exception, for historical reasons a Windows text line ends in <CR><LF>, Carriage Return, Line Feed, while a Unix text line just ends in <LF>, Line Feed.

Lots of FTP tools like FireFTP know about this and convert automatically. Update: Oh my gosh, I must admit that even Win IE know how to do this.

I don't know how many files that you have to do this with, but say you have used binary ftp to transfer a "dos.text" to a Unix system, Open that file in vi and then save it. That blows way these <CR>'s, in Perl,'C', the \r chars away. That's it.

However normally, if you FTP in "text mode" that happens automatically in either direction for you. Or at least that is very likely. This is NOT "rocket science": to go to Unix from Windows delete the \r characters. To go from Unix to Windows, add a \r before each \n that doesn't already have a \r before it.

In reply to Re: Convert file to unix by Marshall
in thread Convert file to unix by Anonymous Monk

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