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Article #301Re: .pl files How to convert in text format ?
From: Kragen Sitaker
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 00:00
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In article <slrn7vvlm8.3ul.efflandt@efflandt.xnet.com>, David Efflandt <efflandt@xnet.com> wrote: >On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 23:18:44 +0200, ledanseurs <memoire@worldnet.fr> wrote: >>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. Wordpad should handle this fine, though. I suspect you're right and le danseur hasn't actually tried opening them in wordpad, but just assumes the results would be the same as with notepad. >If you have MS Word, or other word processor, you should be able to >load them fine and then save as DOS text. Surely there is a solution with perl -ip, no? :) -- <kragen@pobox.com> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/> Fri Oct 08 1999 32 days until the Internet stock bubble bursts on Monday, 1999-11-08. <URL:http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/bubble.html>
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