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My Slackware system came with fromdos and todos that strips the ^M or adds
them respectively.. The source for them are at
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/source/a I believe..
--Barry
--
"...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero
outside."
(By Linus Torvalds)
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 04:29:38PM -0400, Greg Lopp wrote:
> > Bin mode vs ascii mode in ftp only relates to the integrity of the high order bit
> > of each byte transfered. FF hex becomes 7F hex, but ^M (0D hex) is unchanged.
> >
> > The problem is that in a UNIX file, ^A alone is used for end of line. In DOS,
> > ^M^A is used.
> >
> >
> >
> > .......unless I've been very very wrong all this time....
>
> You've been very, very wrong all this time. Ascii mode does, by
> default, convert CRLF to LF. From the man page for ftp...
>
> cr Toggle carriage return stripping during ascii type file re-
> trieval. Records are denoted by a carriage return/linefeed
> sequence during ascii type file transfer. When cr is on (the
> default), carriage returns are stripped from this sequence to
> conform with the UNIX single linefeed record delimiter.
> Records on non-UNIX remote systems may contain single line-
> feeds; when an ascii type transfer is made, these linefeeds
> may be distinguished from a record delimiter only when cr is
> off.
>
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