soft returns

[macklin01]

Hello!

I'd like to write a small utility for replacing "soft returns" with "hard returns". I see these a lot when I transmit text files from linux to windows, and it would be nice to be able to just filter the files through a small proggy.

In essence, all I need are the ascii codes (probably in octal) for the two types of returns. Can anybody help?

For example, the "@" symbol is number 64, which is 100 in octal, and coded as \100.

Thanks! -- Paul

 

[Thelemac]

http://www.asciitable.com/

There ya go.

 

[XWRed1]

In dos/windows systems, they use a cr and an lf which is 13 and 10 in decimal, or 0D and 0A in hex. Linux/Unix machines just use an lf for newlines.

Course there's already a million scripts and utilities for converting between these.

 

[macklin01]

Thanks! One last question: CR is a hard return, and LF is a soft return, right?

Often, linux sticks in LF when you hit return within a paragraph (as in editing code, for instance) that is interpretted strangely in windows notepad, for instance. (Or do I have this backwards?)

Thanks! -- Paul

 

[macklin01]

XW, once again, thanks. Against all proper advice, I wrote my grep and tail/head anyway. I've found it pretty handy in monitoring my console folding. (I don't like the screensavers, EMIII, etc.)

Thanks again for your help, as well as from Thelemac. You were just the two I was hoping would help! -- paul