On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:59:44PM +0200, Micha wrote: > Tried that at the time but it turns out that I'm just too used for linux (over > ten years windows free except for the last job :-(, anyway, turns out that I'm > just stupid or dumb, the file was written in text mode, where windows makes > the > distinction but linux doesn't. > > Now I just need to find a way to convert the files under linux since there are > quite a few of them and without find and some bash script a 10 second job will > take a couple of hours. > > Will dos2unix work on a binary file written in text mode?
For those of us who haven't run windows since 3.1, what is the windows definition of a binary file written in text mode? Is it some kind of uuencode where every 7 bits is sent in 8bits so that they can be represented as normal text (7-bit ASCII)? AFAIK, dos2unix only deals with CR-LF issues. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
