Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-09-01 Thread Randy Kramer
David E. Fox wrote: And don't forget 'tr' and/or 'sed', both of which can do these batch conversions, and much more. Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-09-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 22:59, Randy Kramer wrote: David E. Fox wrote: And don't forget 'tr' and/or 'sed', both of which can do these batch conversions, and much more. Thanks! Randy Kramer If you look at the man page for mount ('man mount'), you can find the following in the FAT mount

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-09-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 01 September 2001 02:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a texteditor called TextPad www.textpad.com it will open unix files and save as the same with having to convert them. Its also a great general editor with tons toys. And on our side of the great divide, nedit will give you an

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-09-01 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Actually that wont work. WHen the text files get open in Windows, you will get wierd characters. Use a utility called mcopy to copy the files. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, civileme wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 13:57, you wrote: I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
Mark, Thanks for the response! Really appreciate it because I couldn't get mcopy to work as I expected. Downloaded DOS2UNIX.EXE (for win32) from http://www.bastet.com/software/software.html -- seems to work fine. (I don't have an ftp server on either computer, and, for security / loading

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme, Thanks! Very simple! Randy Kramer civileme wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 13:57, you wrote: I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. Open those mounts on your machine with a file manager like

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
Tom Brinkman wrote: Well, I don't understand. If it's a dual boot situation, you surely don't need floppy's. AND you don't need anything extra to mount windoze partitons. Your properly configured fstab and normal kernel with vfat enabled should be able to work with windoze partitions,

RE: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
use FTP in ASCII mode... it'll auto correct linux to dos and dos to linux for ya... Also, check freshmeat.net, they probably have a dos2unix/unix2dos utilities for linux. Solaris comes with this utility... -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 August 2001 13:57, you wrote: I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. I think I've found one way to do it -- using mcopy with the -a (or -t ??) option, but I thought I'd ask for other suggestions.

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 31 August 2001 05:36 pm, Randy Kramer escribió: The only thing you might run into is /n (line feed) differences. Linux does it properly, windoze doesn't. Well, cept for DOS's 'edit'. If you move or copy a txt file to windoze, open it with 'edit' and then save it. Then even

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use a texteditor called TextPad www.textpad.com it will open unix files and save as the same with having to convert them. Its also a great general editor with tons toys. my $0.02 Steven - Original Message - From: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread David E. Fox
need to do batch conversions for '\n' between U*nx and DOS (windoze), do a Google or ftp search for 'unix2dos'. I believe there's also 'dos2unix'. And don't forget 'tr' and/or 'sed', both of which can do these batch conversions, and much more. Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
Tom Brinkman wrote: Just thought it was worth mentioning that 'edit' in M$ products still does it right if you save a u*nx created file with it. I suspect it's the only M$ editor that adheres to ASCII standards. FWIW, if you need to do batch conversions for '\n' between U*nx and DOS