Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

From: G.W. Haywood <ged(at)jubileegroup.co.uk>
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 12:23:42 EDT

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.


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