[ale] Mac/Unix linefeed wierdness

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

        Macs use ^M (\015) as the newline (\n) character (as opposed
to ^J (\012) for UNIXen and ^M^J (\015\012) for DOS and friends).
Assuming the existence of perl in your path:


## mac to unix
perl -i -pe 's/\015/\012/g' macfile
## unix to mac
perl -i -pe 's/\012/\015/g' unixfile
## unix to dos
perl -i -pe 's/\012/\015\012/g' unixfile


        `mac to dos' and `dos to mac' are left as exercieses for the
reader.  If you want to keep backup copies of the files, change the
`-i' to `-i.bak' instead.

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