Thanks, Chuck. This is good advice, but I've got it covered when transferring. I don't have it covered copying between various partitions on my local, hd. At least not until the sed syntax. Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Janina -- > > In addition to the "todos" and "fromdos" utilities Gene mentioned, the > "zip" utility has a couple of interesting switches, -l and -ll. One of > them converts cr/lf to lf, and the other converts lf to cr/lf. I do all my > file transfers in binary mode exclusively, so my text files end up as unix > text files. It is a lot easier to do the conversions when needed than to > remember when to switch file transfer modes from binary to ascii... > > Chuck. > > > My Web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759. > >