Re: binfmt_script and ^M

David
2001-02-27T23:24:05Z

Alistair Riddell wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Heusden, Folkert van wrote:
>
>> But; it's not that much of hassle to run it trough some awk/sed/whatsoever
>> script, would it? Imho there should be as less as possible code in the
>
>
> man fromdos (on most linux systems anyway)
>

tr -d '\r' < infile > outfile

We wouldn't make the kernel translate m$ word docs into files the kernel
can parse. It's a userland thing and changing the kernel would change a
legacy that would cause a lot of confusion I would expect.

-d