Michael Grant wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MG> Hello Roy.

 MG> 21 Jun 03 12:08, you wrote to me:

 MG>> What is "Unix style" newlines?

 RT> Dos uses both the characters  (0x13, 0x10) for
a line ending,  a
 RT> carryover from CP/M which did the same.  Macs (I hear) use only CR,  and
 RT> unix (and linux) only use the LF.

 MG> Then I take it if Sqafix is ported to Unix/Linux, that is one thing
 MG> that will have to be altered in order for the automatic adding of
 MG> new areas to work properly?

I have no idea,  not using that package.  Some software has trouble with
funny line endings,  other stuff ignores it...

 MG> If Squish\UNIX can be compiled under djgpp, and there are only 
 MG> 's in it's squish.cfg file, will it still work under 
 MG> DOS/Windows, or would one have to always run unix2dos to convert
 MG> the config file? (That could be quite an annoying situation...)

I've no idea offhand.

BTW,  there's a program I've been using under dos for *ages* that does some
of the same conversions.  It's called "flip".  The other major
use of it for me was to convert wordstar "doc" files to plain
text,  which it did by simply stripping out the high bit.  Available here:

flip.zip  10898  04-Jan-94 10:00

A 1-minute (or less) freq from anywhere.  The zip contains only the .exe
and a .hlp file containing the following:

File interchange program flip version 1.0a.  Copyright 1989 Rahul Dhesi,
All rights reserved.  Both noncommercial and commercial copying, use, and
creation of derivative works are permitted in accordance with the
requirements of the GNU license.  This program does newline conversions.

   Usage:     flip -umhvtsbz file ...

One of -u, -m, or -h is required;  others are optional.  See user manual.

   -u     convert to **IX format (CR LF => LF, lone CR or LF unchanged,
          trailing control Z removed, embedded control Z unchanged)
   -m     convert to MS-DOS format (lone LF => CR LF, lone CR unchanged)
   -h     give this help message
   -v     be verbose, print filenames as they are processed
   -t     touch files (don't preserve timestamps)
   -s     strip high bit
   -b     convert binary files too (else binary files are left unchanged)
   -z     truncate file at first control Z encountered

May be invoked as "toix" (same as "flip -u") or
"toms" (same as "flip -m").

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