At 09:54 AM 8/31/2009, you wrote:
>On Monday 31 August 2009, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
> >Rondal,
> >
> >         There's also a nifty little program on most *nix boxen
> >called "dos2unix."  The syntax to use this command line utility is
> >dos2unix <original file> <output file>.  There are a number of
> >qualifiers you can add to the command.  Check "man dos2unix".  This
> >utility takes Windows formatted text files and converts them to Unix
> >type text files.
> >
>Mark;
>
>I really should have mentioned that in my reply to Rondal.  But actually
>having the network available on my machine is such an advantage over the long
>haul that dos2unix completely slipped my mind.  'tr' also could do that, but
>the syntax has always been a problem child to me so I wouldn't foist that off
>on a *nix new bee.
>
>If Rondal runs a net cable to it, he will wonder how he ever got by without
>it.  Just the ability to fire up an IRC client, and send it off to
>irc.freenode.net & /join  #emc, and actually have an excellent chance of
>talking directly to the guys that write this stuff, will get you answers,
>often in just 2 or 3 minutes.
>
>[huge snippage]
>
>--
>Cheers, Gene
>"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them.
><https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp>
>
>Howe's Law:
>         Everyone has a scheme that will not work.

Gene,

         I agree on the networking.  I was just tossing the dos2unix 
utility up as a quick and dirty way to confirm that it was a Winders 
vs *nix file formatting issue.

Mark 


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