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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:22:39 -0800
From: David <david@blue-labs.org>
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To: Alistair Riddell <ali@gwc.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: binfmt_script and ^M
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Alistair Riddell wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Heusden, Folkert van wrote:
> 
>> But; it's not that much of hassle to run it trough some awk/sed/whatsoever
>> script, would it? Imho there should be as less as possible code in the
> 
> 
> man fromdos (on most linux systems anyway)
> 

tr -d '\r' < infile > outfile

We wouldn't make the kernel translate m$ word docs into files the kernel 
can parse.  It's a userland thing and changing the kernel would change a 
legacy that would cause a lot of confusion I would expect.

-d

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