On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:19:17 +1000, Andy Goss wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in >>> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not >>> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised.
>>> Can anybody suggest some solution to this problem? Use MS-DOS-file format, if you want to share text files between Linux and Windoze. As most have pointed out, most Linux text editors can recognize and use the MS-DOS-file format files. I'll add emacs to the list. >>> The remedy is to cut the text >>> and paste it into an MS Word file, then cut it again and re-paste it into >>> the >>> text file, which is not so good because this way I need rebooting every time >>> into the Windows partition. That's too much troublesome. Use unix2dos (/usr/bin/unix2dos) and dos2unix (/usr/local/bin/dos2unix) to convert file formats between Unix & Dos. The unix2dos & dos2unix is from the tofrodos package. HTH -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
