Hi there, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 Matus UHLAR wrote:
> On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > 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. > > how do you transfer those files? FTP has ASCII transfer which translates > line ends correctly and mail has also well-defined line ends, so all mail > clients know how to convert. > > It can be a problem when you edit the same file on the same disk using > different editors, but meny editors support both line ends... > > > 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. No, the remedy is to use the proper tool. You're looking for 'todos' or one of its aliases. However, so was I on this newly-installed Debian system of mine... tornado:~# >>> man todos No manual entry for todos tornado:~# >>> apt-cache search todos ... sysutils - Miscellaneous small system utilities - dummy package tofrodos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos ... tornado:~# >>> apt-get install sysutils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: memtester procinfo tofrodos The following NEW packages will be installed memtester procinfo sysutils tofrodos 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/83.4kB of archives. After unpacking 336kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Media Change: Please insert the disc labelled 'Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070407-12:15' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter Selecting previously deselected package memtester. (Reading database ... 86755 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking memtester (from .../memtester_2.93.1-3.1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package procinfo. Unpacking procinfo (from .../procinfo_18-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package tofrodos. Unpacking tofrodos (from .../tofrodos_1.7.6-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package sysutils. Unpacking sysutils (from .../sysutils_2.0.1_all.deb) ... Setting up memtester (2.93.1-3.1) ... Setting up procinfo (18-1) ... Setting up tofrodos (1.7.6-2) ... Setting up sysutils (2.0.1) ... tornado:~# >>> man tofrodos No manual entry for tofrodos tornado:~# >>> man tofromdos No manual entry for tofromdos tornado:~# >>> man -k tofromdos tofromdos: nothing appropriate. tornado:~# >>> man -k tofrodos tofrodos: nothing appropriate. tornado:~# >>> man procinfo Reformatting procinfo(8), please wait... tornado:~# >>> tofrodos -su: tofrodos: command not found tornado:/usr/bin# >>> man fromdos Reformatting fromdos(1), please wait... Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! Is there a bugzilla for man pages? -- 73, Ged. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
