Re: Mcopy not removing the "^M" character

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Monday 08 November 2004 19:00, Eric Dickner wrote:
> 
> --- David Jardine <david@jardine.de> wrote:
>  
> > If you're putting something on to a windows machine,
> > wouldn't 
> > mcopy automatically use the dos CR-LF?
> 
> I was trying to remove the CR-LF so the /etc/hosts
> file lookup wouldn't be messed up.  I never did get
> "mcopy -T" (or any option or combination of options)
> to do it.  Instead I used the KDE file manager as root
> (something I ususally use "nano" and a shell) and cut
> and paste.  It was smart enough to strip them off.

Wouldn't 
   $ tr '\r\n' '\n' < dosfile > unixfile

do it?

-- 
richard