From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T18:34:49+09:00
Subject: Re: strip DOS ^Ms?

* Kaspar Schiess <eule@space.ch> [0650 09:50]:
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> | I generally strip DOS idiocy on the command line with:
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> |    tr -d '\r' < in > out
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> Why would a thing grown from history be called idiocy in any context ?
> It just is that way. If we change that, we would to have agree on one
> line ending for everyone. Doesn't Mac have the same issues but the other
> way round ?

As far as I'm concerned you can have any line terminator you like in
the privacy of your own filesystem, but when you transfer a file to 
me, I'd like it in a useful format.

The server in question is the one that returns no output without a 
valid user-agent, remember, and these ^Ms are in the middle of lines.
We're not talking DOS end-of-lines here.

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