rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russ Herman) (10/14/86)
Warning - just because you've ARC'ed a file under UN*X or DOS, don't assume
you can extract it under the other OS. The LF vs CRLF line terminators are
a gotcha. It would be nice to have a toggle for stripping/adding CRs under
UN*X.
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>It would be nice to have a toggle for stripping/adding CRs under >UN*X. Have you ever heard of SED? The Stream EDitor will do this effortlessly, as would a simple C-program.
zeta@runx.OZ (Nick Andrew) (10/20/86)
> Warning - just because you've ARC'ed a file under UN*X or DOS, don't assume > you can extract it under the other OS. The LF vs CRLF line terminators are > a gotcha. It would be nice to have a toggle for stripping/adding CRs under > UN*X. Well, the purpose of a file archiving program is to archive files. Simply ensure the Unix version does ----NO---- translations of any sort on the data [apart from packing/squeezing/crunching of course] and you have a perfectly compatible program with no gotchas. When moving ARC'ed stuff from one OS to the other, if there are any text files which need CRLF->LF translation or vice versa simply run a filter on the text. A filter takes about 2 seconds to write for either machine. Once you have some general purpose filters for file translation all your worries are over for good.