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Old 06-24-2001
How do I convert unix text to to win text?

How do I convert unix text files into readable text for windows.

Dave
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Old 06-25-2001
You can use 'unix2dos' utitlity.

using Perl to do this:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/\n/\r\n/' filename





 
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