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Subject: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 13:37:00 -0000
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I am set up for "Unix" rather than "DOS" and created a text file directly
from the keyboard by typing

$ cat > textfile
this is line1 <press Enter>
this is line2 <press Enter>
<press Ctrl-D>
$

It turns out that the two-line file textfile created by this method, is
DOS-terminated. I was kind of thinking it would (should?) be
Unix-terminated. I know there are 100 threads on line termination, but in
contexts more sophisticated than this. Please can somebody tell me whether
this is a bug; or meant to happen (if so, why); or comment with assurance
that my "Unix" set-up must be faulty in some way (correctable?)

Thank you. By the way, if I try

$ cat > textfile << X
> this is line1 <press Enter>
> this is line2 <press Enter>
> X <press Enter>
$

(where > is the provided prompt) then the two-line file textfile is
Unix-terminated.

Fergus


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