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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
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Sender: andrew@tekecs.TEK.COM
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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>> 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]