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  From: Alex Wallis <awol@prepaidonline.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:04:49 +0930

Re: W2k->RH7.2 codpage problem?

Perhaps the man pages for the commands dos2unix and unix2dos may help?

Alex

Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> 
> What does he use to edit it?
> 
> Sounds like the usual DOS 2 UNIX text issue (ie. how the ends of lines are
> defined).
> 
> Try getting him emacs for windows (or vim if you're feeling unpleasant) or
> better yet, get him to run RH on his desktop.
> 
> MMC
> --
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Daryl Pilkington wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I've got a DB2 programmer who codes text *.clp files on W2k which
> > define his DB2 tables.
> >
> > He runs these scripts on the DB2 server which is installed on RH7.2.
> >
> > When we open them up on RH7.2 using VI, the text files have extra
> > characters at the end of each line, plus there are other characters
> > like corner brackets at other places.
> >
> > It sounds like a codepage issue.
> > Has anyone else seen this problem?
> > Am I investigating in the right direction or have I lost the plot ;)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Daryl  Pilkington
> >
> > //// The PC-Therapist, Business Computing Integration
> > O<O  AUSTRALIA
> > \_/
> > <O>  OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2
> >      IBM Certified Systems Expert
> >
> >         email: darylp@pc-therapist.com.au
> >           Mob: 0425-251-300
> >
> >
> 
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> Matthew
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