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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? The Hello Thread Post 302089888 by pathological on Thursday 21st of September 2006 10:14:10 AM

09-21-2006

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The Hello Thread

This seems like as good a place as any to start the posting. Allo *Waves*. My name is Phil and I work IT. I have recently been hit with a big bomb in my world of work. I realized just fixing computers was not enough i needed to pic a specialty. Well, that was a bit hit for me, i never really specialized in anything or computers, except hardware architecture really :-(

ANYWHO, this brings me to why i am here. I have AWLAYS loved *nix, it has always had a special place in my heart. I have just never really had time to learn it on my own at home, or had the money to take my courses, WELL my Boss has recently told me if i have courses i want to take the company will pay for them. I am excited.

SO the reason i am here, aside from general *nix knowledge. I am starting a project for my company, i want to setup, for them, a Unix Firewall server. A friend of mine a while bad, had a dad with a Unix firewall. It was set up on X-mas of 95 and was only powered down once, when his backup ran out of battery during the blackout in 2001. He also never rebooted, it, of sure he took it ofline to aply rules but no power cycles an no rebooting. I was very impressed, and then knew the power of Unix.

Anywho, his computer was setup to take about 1 billion packets, he had intercepted more than twice that. I thought it was funny.

SO that is my big reason, i am always told, when it comes to unix, you do not just Use it, it is best to have a reason why youw ant to use it, when it comes to learning it. SO now i have one, and i am excited.

No need to continue that here though, this is my intro with some background on me, i will start the unix question in a different thread :-)

Pleasure meeting you all, and i hope i am not too annoying asking far too many questions.

-Path

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cr(1)							      General Commands Manual							     cr(1)

NAME

       cr - converts text files between nix EOL and dos EOL

SYNOPSIS

       cr  - | +  <input file> <output file>

DESCRIPTION

       Text  files,  such  as tle files, that come from a dos source usualy have the ^M symbol at the end of every line. Cr converts files between
       the dos newline format and the normal *nix newline format by stripping the ^M to convert dos to *nix, using the '-' option, or adding ^M to
       a *nix file to create the proper dos file when the '+' option is used.

       Although this extra character is not often a problem, programs like seesat5, which are data driven will encounter parsing problems when the
       extra character is present. It is these problems that cr is intended to repair.

   Options
       - | +  One or the other of these options is required. The '-' option is used to remove ^M from all newlines found in the dos file. The  '+'
	      option is used to add ^M to every newline found in a *nix file.

       input file
	      Fully delineated path to the input file. As this program is used in the dos environment as well, standard input is not used.

       output file
	      Fully delineated path to the output file. As this program is used in the dos environment as well, standart output is not used.

SEE ALSO

       seesat5(1), seesat5(7), SEESAT5.INI(5), tle(5)

BUGS

       Cr  is  not an inteligent program. It methodicaly replaces/removes the offending character when it finds it in the correct context. Newline
       sequences found in contexts other than 'newline' will be replaced/removed just like those found in the proper  context.	Passing  a  binary
       file through cr is not advised, for this reason. Send all inqueries to Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>.

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