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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users line endings help of non-ASCII files Post 302479109 by cokedude on Thursday 9th of December 2010 10:19:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

That is not the point - the default carriage-control for unix is unix carriage control - what shell wants. If you use a windows editor with DOS-carriage control to create a unix shell file, then you have problems. If "you don't then you don't" Your choice.

I do not get your point re: your original question. File "types" are kind of an artifact, if you know what that is, of windows. Windows uses file types (extensions) to load applications. Unix developed that (gnome for example) to keep the windows people happy while they were on linux.

I am not assigning value to either position, just pointing out that in 1970's versions of unix it made no difference. Nowadays it does (obviously your post impled it does) - not because of unix so much - but because of windows-think imposed from windows -> unix, brought in by windows first, unix second users. That matches the definition of an articfact - some value induced not by the object itself; rather it is induced by the perception by humans of that object. It is not necessarily an innate property of the object.

My point is I have a very annoying file that pidgin needs work right. The file kept magically changing on its own. You can read about it here if your curious.
https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-ex...cal-files.html

I was hoping there was a easy way to check on file endings. File endings are VERY important in certain circumstances.

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PS2ASCII(1)							 Ghostscript Tools						       PS2ASCII(1)

NAME

       ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII

SYNOPSIS

       ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
       ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]

DESCRIPTION

       ps2ascii  uses  gs(1) to extract ASCII text from PostScript(tm) or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. If no files are specified on
       the command line, gs reads from standard input; but PDF input must come from an explicitly-named file, not standard input.   If	no  output
       file is specified, the ASCII text is written to standard output.

       ps2ascii  doesn't  look at font encoding, and isn't very good at dealing with kerning, so for PostScript (but not currently PDF), you might
       consider pstotext (see below).

FILES

       Run "gs -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your system, from which you can get more details.

SEE ALSO

       pstotext(1), http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.63.

AUTHOR

       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.  David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made  substantial  improve-
       ments to ps2ascii.

8.63								   1 August 2008						       PS2ASCII(1)