ATWELL@UTAH-20.ARPA (Bart Atwell) (02/18/86)
I have been trying to download some files from a Un*x machine and apparently what arrives doesn't have carriage returns. Can anyone send me a program to convert from Un*x to ST text format, either to run on the ST or the host? Thanks in advance Bart Atwell -------
info-atari@ucbvax.UUCP (02/20/86)
While I don't have an ST, you may want to check what the value of a
carriage return is on the ST, then use the UNIX 'tr' command to translate
a UNIX CR ('^J' or 012 octal) to the ST CR (lets say it's '^M' or 015 octal).
So on UNIX issue the command:
tr "\012" "\015" <Unix_file >ST_file
this will change the '^J' to '^M' in the Unix_file and put the result in the
ST_file, which can then be downloaded. This is what I do to download UNIX
files to my Atari 8-bitter (CR=233 octal).
Owen Alexandercramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (02/20/86)
> I have been trying to download some files from a Un*x machine > and apparently what arrives doesn't have carriage returns. Can > anyone send me a program to convert from Un*x to ST text format, > either to run on the ST or the host? > > Thanks in advance > > Bart Atwell > > ------- One of the annoying things about UNIX (compared to SENSIBLE operating systems) is that "line feed" is the end of line marker. Your best bet is to write a filter under UNIX to replace '\n' with "\0x0d\n" in the file you are downloading.
fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish) (02/22/86)
In article <522@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: >One of the annoying things about UNIX (compared to SENSIBLE operating >systems) is that "line feed" is the end of line marker. Your best >bet is to write a filter under UNIX to replace '\n' with "\0x0d\n" in >the file you are downloading. Hmm.., why didn't you recommend he do it at the other end since it is obviously more "SENSIBLE"...