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Re: .pl files How to convert in text format ?

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From: David Efflandt
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 00:00
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On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 23:18:44 +0200, ledanseurs <memoire@worldnet.fr> wrote:
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>I am working on Win NT 4 Workstation. I was given some files with 'pl'
>extension,
>(ex file.pl ), I can read them with a software called Worldview.
>I have to convert those files to text files (.txt), do you know how to
>do that ?
>If I open those files with Word Pad or Note pad , they are full of
>unreadable ascii
>caracters, so i really need a program that can convert those kind of
>files.

Probably Unix text files that are missing the carriage return that DOS/Win
use.  So the newline shows up as a black box in Notepad.

If you have MS Word, or other word processor, you should be able to
load them fine and then save as DOS text.

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From: efflandt@xnet.com (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: .pl files How to convert in text format ?
Date: 1999/10/09
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