Re: Mcopy not removing the "^M" character
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:58:13PM +0100, David Jardine wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:01:41AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:46:08AM -0800, Eric Dickner wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a text file that I burned onto a CD on a
> > > windows machine.
>
> If you're putting something on to a windows machine, wouldn't
> mcopy automatically use the dos CR-LF?
I don't think this happens.
The OP wanted to transfer from the Windoze environment anyway.
He might find an easier solution to be
mcopy drive:$FILE ; fromdos $FILE
which will assure the change happens, all without any copy/paste stuff
(which I saw in his other followup post).
Cheers,
Kenward
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