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• DOS text files have CR LF (\015 \012 or ^M ^J) at the end of each line and a ^Z (\032) as an end-of-file character.
• Mac text files end each line with CR (\015)
• Unix text files end each line with LF (\012)

Translation between file formats

• In Unix
  • To translate a Mac file to Unix, use:

    tr '\015' '\012' < macfile > unixfile

  • To translate a DOS file to Unix, use:

    tr -d '\015\032' < dosfile > unixfile

  • To translate Unix to DOS, Heiner wrote a shell script: xtod
• In Mac, use BBEdit or BBEdit Lite available from www.barebones.com