Re: [--- DOS2UNIX ? ---]
  By: Vince Coen to Winston Smith on Fri Nov 28 2003 10:35 am

 > Hello Winston!
 > 
 > 24 Nov 03 12:07, you wrote to me:
 > 
 >  WS> If you are going from DOS to UNIX, why not just use a
"TR filter with
 >  WS> complement" in the jobstream?  UNIX excels at lexical
transformations.
 >  WS> (Or are you stuck on the DOS side of things?)
 > 
 > This code is available and works, and I do not try and re-invent the wheel.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Vince
 > 
 
Exactly!  And since it is already *BUILT INTO UNIX*, why add an overly complex
piece of absurd kludge-ware to duplicate what UNIX has already been doing for
the last three decades as part of its native OS?  You have re-invented the
wheel and introduced needless inefficiencies, when you could just let the OS do
what it was designed to do in the first place!  SEE: STTY, MAP, TR, SED, PERL,
Filters, Device Special Files.  Stop trying to re-invent the wheel!  UNIX is
available and it works.  Let it do what it is designed for!

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