Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: "dd conv=unblock cbs=80" Message-ID: <10104@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: 22 Jun 88 16:01:50 GMT References: <144@insyte.UUCP> <3350@phri.UUCP> <8168@ncoast.UUCP> Sender: andrew@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 13 >> Can't you just do: "dd conv=unblock cbs=80 (or whatever)" to >> convert the file to standard Unix \n-terminated lines? Hasn't this been >> part of Unix since at least v6? > Apparently not: neither System III nor System V r3.1 supports it. (I used > "strings" on both systems, to make sure it wasn't merely undocumented). Either your "strings" is busted or you have a crippled V3.1. The vanilla AT&T 3.1 source tape includes a dd.c that implements this command. -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]