[solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in
> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not
> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised.  The remedy is to cut the
> text
> and paste it into an MS Word file, then cut it again and re-paste it into the
> text file, which is not so good because this way I need rebooting every time
> into the Windows partition.
>
> Can anybody suggest some solution to this problem?



Claudius Hubig <x2017_2007@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> nano, e. g., supports the MS-DOS-file format (or whatever it's
> called) and thus you can save your text files with nano (C+O, M+D)
> the way Windows users are able to read them properly.



Thanks, this seems to work fine: I paste the text into nano buffer, then do C-o
M-d and it's done. :)

Bye,
Rodolfo