Greg - My slackware distribution includes two utilities that operate as filters, one called "fromdos" and another called "todos" which do the trick. Chuck On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Gregory Nowak wrote: > The reason they look like garbage is because linux or unix files don't have > cr/lf pairs like DOS files do; they just have lf to end the line. What I do > myself, is to import the file into my bns, search for control j, and replace > every instance of that with control m control j. Then, either I would read > the file in the bns, or upload it back to the PC. Since I got tired of doing > this, and since I couldn't find a conversion program for it on the net, I'm > in the process of writing a program to convert between DOS, unix and MAC > files. > Greg Nowak > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Poehlman <poehlman1 at home.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 1:34 PM > Subject: Re: [pac at fortuitous.com: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fortuitous Technologies > Releases Linux Training Manuals Under GPL.\] > > > > is there a way that these can be viewed in a dos editor or a windows > > equivalent? they open fine in windows but are full of rubbish. > > Thanks! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
