On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 09:28:26PM -0500, Gene C. Falck wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> I see the commands unix2dos and
> unix2mac discussed as being used to
> convert files created in Linux to the
> formats for Windows or Macintosh.
> dos2unix is mentioned to go the
> other way. The example given is
> for .txt files.
>
> I have been "ignorantly" moving .txt,
> .htm, and .pdf files back and forth
> between the three computer OSs and
> I have not had any problems using
> them.
In some cases, if you open a file created on Windows in a Linux machine,
you'll see a bunch of ^M scattered throughout the file. This is because
of a difference in the way each handles carriage returns. I haven't run
into this in awhile, not sure if it's because of changes in how Windows
does textfiles now. A pdf file shouldn't be affected, and, depending upon
how it was created, you probably wouldn't see anything odd in an html file
either. If a .txt file looks normal on both, I wouldn't worry about it.
--
Scott Robbins
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