linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Terminal

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Terminal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix2dos

https://kb.iu.edu/data/acux.html

http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/unix2mac/

Maybe these will help, basically it refers to how the printer or perhaps the screen sees the line feeds when you press the enter key.

Joan in Reno

From: Gene C. Falck <gfalck@merr.com>
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2014 7:28 PM
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Terminal

Hi All,

I've been digging into the beginning of
Mark Sobell's book on Linux Terminal
Commands.

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.

What does this command category
do?

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Regards,

Gene Falck
gfalck@merr.com