Re: unix2dos and dos2unix

[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:05:28 +0200

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 05:12:57PM -0300, John Lenton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:33:45AM -0800, William R Ward wrote:
> > my $unix       = "\n";
> 
> AFAIK, "\n" is only "\n" on unixoids; elsewhere it does what the
> OS needs to have print "hello, world?\n" Just Work(tm).

Instead of using \n and \r I propose to use the explicit \x0D and \x0A.

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