Re: Unix file to PC, weird LF-CR

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The caret (^) stands for CTRL, and M is the 13th letter in the English
alphabet, so ^M is ASCII 13 (decimal), or 0D (hex). In DOS you were
able, often, to enter these control codes with the CTRL key and the
respective letter of the alphabet. Probably true, to a degree, for Unix,
the "urOS" for all things ASCII, eh?  ;-)

James Rich wrote:
>
> Hmm... I usually see this when I look at a PC file on a unix box.  The
> extra CR shows up as ^M.  I believe that some programs handle the
> differences with no problems.  Notepad may not but I think Wordpad does.
> Likewise on unix, emacs and vi show the ^M character but Open Office has
> no problem.  Emacs has a LF-CR compatibility mode and there is a way to
> strip the CR off the end of the lines on unix, but I don't remember right
> now.
>

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