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Re: checking if file is dos textfile or unix textfile ? [message #38625 is a reply to message #38619]

Fri, 19 March 2004 08:19

Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003

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> following from a question some months ago, this question arised:
> how can I check if a textfile is dos or unix formatted ? Which way do I
> have to open it in IDL under windows (older IDL version 5.2.1) ? How do
> I have to read from the file to check the format ?

Is there some specific file-reading issue you're having? As far as I
know, there is no difference between reading DOS-formatted and
UNIX-formatted files no matter what OS you're using. As a test, I just
read in a DOS-formatted text file on my Linux box without any problems.

There are two UNIX utility programs, dos2unix and unix2dos which convert
files back and forth between the formats. If you want to make sure that
all of your files are of the same format, just run all of them through
the appropriate converter.

-Mike

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		Re: checking if file is dos textfile or unix textfile ? By: Norbert Hahn on Fri, 19 March 2004 11:14
		Re: checking if file is dos textfile or unix textfile ? By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 19 March 2004 08:19
		Re: checking if file is dos textfile or unix textfile ? By: Norbert Hahn on Fri, 19 March 2004 07:56
		Re: checking if file is dos textfile or unix textfile ? By: R.Bauer on Fri, 19 March 2004 06:26
		Re: checking if file is dos textfile or unix textfile ? By: R.Bauer on Sat, 20 March 2004 01:15

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