[PLUG] OK, now I did it. Deleted /bin

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Wed Jul 26 16:07:10 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:59 -0700, Jason Martin wrote:
> On 7/25/06, Derek Loree <drl at drloree.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 20:46 -0700, Jason Martin wrote:
> > > On 7/24/06, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > Notepad -- which gave me a formatting nightmare. All one continuous
> > > > stream of text without line breaks.
> > >
> > > Search for dos2unix and unix2dos to help with conversions of CR and LF
> > > differences.  The utilities are available both for *nix and Windows.
> >
> > Or just use WordPad instead of NotePad, it knows what to do with the
> > Unix line breaks.
> 
> You are assuming the only usage of ASCII files is to view them.
> Notepad is only one of many Windows programs that does not know how to
> handle *nix ASCII files.

I didn't say that it would handle all aspects of a *nix ASCII file
correctly, just the line breaks.  I will have to admit though that if I
have to do something with a *nix file in Winblows, it is usually just to
view it.
> 
> Jason
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