Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: CR? LF? CRLF???? Summary: yes, use mks vi or other tools Message-ID: <466@mks.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 88 20:57:16 GMT References: <1770@loral.UUCP> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 18 In article <1770@loral.UUCP>, jlh@loral.UUCP (The Mad Merkin Hunter) writes: > I've downloaded some text files from a UN*X machine via arc and xmodem. > but it turns out that the lines end in line feed. Edlin rides the > porcelan bus unless it sees a CR LF combination. So, is there an easy > way in DOS or MKS vi to automatically do this conversion? Yes. Read the file into vi and write it out. In fact, most of the MKS tools will read the files which have only linefeeds at the line ends, and will rewrite the file with cr-lf. For example, you can run sed with just the p command. The exceptions are cat and tr, which read and write the file in binary mode. -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043