ASCII File Format: MSDOS or Linux?

[Vin DSL]

This might sound silly, but I released a PHP-Nuke 'add-on' the other night, and as I was building the distro, it got me thinking...

MSDOS (or Windows) formatted ASCII files traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs for line delimiters, but Unix formatted files usually have LF's (line feeds) to terminate each line. So, what I do is format the program files in Unix format, since most ppl are running on *nux servers, but for the docs and changelogs, et cetera, I use MSDOS/Windows format. That makes it easier to view the 'readme' files using Notepad or whatever.

Any thoughts on this? What does everyone else do?

[Eric]

If creating your scripts in Windows and you need to throw them at Linux, use a little tool called "dos2unix". Files can be converted from CR/LF to CR.

[Connie]

Originally posted by Eric_Echter
If creating your scripts in Windows and you need to throw them at Linux, use a little tool called "dos2unix". Files can be converted from CR/LF to CR.

Where do you find this little tool?

[gerilya]

Originally posted by Eric_Echter
If creating your scripts in Windows and you need to throw them at Linux, use a little tool called "dos2unix". Files can be converted from CR/LF to CR.

Either that or using ASCII mode for FTP file transfers.

[gerilya]

Originally posted by clssam


Where do you find this little tool?

It should be available in your SSH account. If not, ask support to install it, I am sure they will not have a problem with that.

There are similar tools for DOS/Windows environment too, but I can't help you much with that beside mentioning Cygwin(http://www.cygwin.com/), which would be overkill.

EDITED:

And of course, any decent editor can do UNIX-to-DOS, DOS-to-UNIX conversions.

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by gerilya
...any decent editor can do UNIX-to-DOS, DOS-to-UNIX conversions.

My editor of choice is Winsyntax. If you decide to use it, be aware that you WILL be completely UNDERwhelmed the first few times you use it. It's as simple to use as Notepad. However, it's powerful enough to satisfy a "PHP Oracle" like myself, as I'm referred to on other sites...

[gerilya]

Thanks, but I am pretty conservative when it comes to the new software Besides, I visited their site at http://www.winsyntax.com/ and didn't find any mention of highlighting for C/C++ nor Perl.