On 22-Feb-01 Don Simons wrote:
> I can imagine that this behavior would irritate people who only work in
> Linux, but I can't really recall anyone complaining in the past, and I
> really don't relish changing PMX to try to compensate for it. Any
> thoughts, discussion, suggestions?
On the Linux end I would suggest:
recode ibmpc..latin1 file.pmx
This will take care of the line endings (among others which shouldn't be
there anyway like language specific characters).
During ftp in ascii mode the line endings are sometimes (though not alway --
depends on the ftp clients) this conversion is done automatically. unzip
doesn't seem to be able to do it, but recode (or dos2unix) will help.
Hold on:
UnZip 5.40 of 28 November 1998, by Info-ZIP
from man unzip:
MODIFIERS
-a convert text files. Ordinarily all files are
extracted exactly as they are stored (as ``binary''
files). The -a option causes files identified by
zip as text files (those with the `t' label in zip-
info listings, rather than `b') to be automatically
extracted as such, converting line endings, end-of-
file characters and the character set itself as
necessary. (For example, Unix files use line feeds
So it should be possible with unzip and -a as well.
K.-H.
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