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

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From: Kragen Sitaker
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?  :)
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Subject: Re: .pl files How to convert in text format ?
Date: 1999/10/10
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