[EMAIL PROTECTED] (rick) wrote:
>In article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you
>wrote:
>> Maybe you transferred it in ASCII mode. Hopefully you didn't transfer it
>> in ASCII mode when you sent it to the NT box because then you'll never get
>> it back. If you did it in ASCII mode sending it back to the Linux system
>> then you must simply resend it in binary.
>
>The problem is the lf -> crlf switch. Just reverse it. There
>will be posts saying this won't work but it will. You'd think
>it doesn't work because what about valid crlf pairs in the
>original data. But they get changed to crcrlf by the ascii
>transfer and back to crlf by the fix. It would be a problem
>if you were hitting the data recursively but you're just doing
>one pass.
ASCII transfer isn't clever enough to spot CRLFs, then? (Can't test this
just at the moment, so I'll take your word for it.)
>I know there are little windows utils to do this but someone
>can cobble up an awk one-liner or something. I did it with rexx.
awk '{ print "\r" $0 }' seems to do it, though this is only lightly
tested.
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