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Re: newbie tip



On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:32:38PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
...
> but i don't have "dos2unix" on my debian potato, and i'm not
> having a great deal of luck finding it at packages.debian.org
> either... all i find is 'sysutils' but:
> 
> 	$ apt-cache show sysutils
> 	This is a package incorporating various small utilities which are:
> 	 *  procinfo - Displays system information from /proc (v16).
> 	 *   memtest - Test system memory for errors (v1.0.1).
> 	 *      bogo - Shows the current bogomips rating without rebooting (v1.2).
> 	 * tofromdos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files (v1.4).

bingo, that's the one. It provides dos2unix and unix2dos as links to
the real meat.

...
> short version: i ain't gonna take out no stinkin' "tr" tip
> without a better reason other than "there's a simpler way to
> accomplish that". :)

still object to calling it a NEWBIE tip though:).
What about having ADVANCED tips once in a while?

-- 
groetjes, carel



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