From: Samuel Kvarnbrink <samuel.kvarnbrink@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T18:58:43+09:00
Subject: Re: strip DOS ^Ms?

Kaspar Schiess wrote:
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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 ?

In the days of the "classic" Mac OS (9.x and earlier) that was true; \r 
was the default line ending. But that changed during the migration to OS 
X, so (with the possible exception of old, badly ported Carbon apps) 
it's not an issue anymore.

//samuel