Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:36:14 EST X-Mailer: Virtual Access by Atlantic Coast PLC, http://www.atlantic-coast.com/va Message-Id: To: cygwin Subject: Re: How do I remove CR/LF from text file In-Reply-To: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E1EA@IIS000> From: Brian Keener Reply-To: bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > Can't you directly generate your file as DOS text? either by writing on a > text-mount, That was how I finally got what I wanted - but since needing it that way was an afterthought and not normal operation - then I don't want it that way permanently but only would like to know how to convert if I need to again. > As you decribe the problem (wordpad understand the file but notepad displays > black rectangles instead of the EOL I think), you need not convert to UNIX > from DOS but the other way round: native Windows programs need CF/LF This would be true - I thought that was what I explained but I may have left something out - so sorry. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple