Greg Stewart wrote: > > The text file structure in Unix is slightly different from that in windows. > You'll noticed, occassionally, that if you open some Unix-created text files > in Windows notepad/word you may see little blocks at line's end. > > I'm not sure that the "carriage return" is different in the oses, but they > seem to handle the end-of-line differently. And I think (again, not sure) > that there are a few different ways of handling this. > > --greg > End of line character in Unix is a single linefeed character Hex 0A In Dos systems it is a carriage-return linefeed pair 0A 0D If you are to convert from one to the other you need to add or remove the corresponding character - no mean feat if there is a lot of data involved, text or otherwise. If you are dealing with binary encoded data - then you have an even greater problem to deal with. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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