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can you write to a dos format while in unix mmccaws2 04-08-2008
Posted by Colin B. on April 8, 2008, 4:48 pm
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> My users are will be uploading a file from unix. I'm trying to save a
> step by formatting the file while in unix so they don't have to format
> it with
>
> "perl -p -e 's/\r/\r\n/' < $infile > $dosfile"
>
> The resulting file after copied to windows did not have a readable
> format. Is this a process that can only be done after the file
> transfer?

Unless I'm missing something, you should just be able to do:
$unix2dos $infile > $outfile

Colin

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