Subject: Re: Help with Win -> NetBSD text files...
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: Eric Fox <eric@fox.phoenix.az.us>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/19/2001 20:01:03
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I end up working with a lot of HTML that originated on windoze
machines.  In order to make life easier I usually process them with one of
these short scripts to add/remove the CRLF insanity depending on where I'm
moving the file.  Hope this helps some.

  /\---/\  Eric J Fox
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:

> Simple question here, which I'll write down the answer, once I get it...
> 
> Under Linux, you can use the command
> # mount -o conv=auto -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt
> which will automatically convert the CR-LF to a newline at the ends of lines
> in a text file.
> 
> How can this be done for NetBSD? Or should I use some other program on
> Windoze, (other than Notepad or Wordpad) for editing files destined for my
> NetBSD system?
> 
> The '^M' at the end of each line isn't bad when the file has only 10 lines
> or so, but gets *really* annoying with bigger files...
> 
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