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[Richard Witt <witt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:

> I have a need to remove the line feed from a dos text file so that I can 
> use it in Linux.  According to the SuSE knowledge database the 
> appropriate command is dos2unix filename.  Unfortunately the OS tells me 
> 'command not found'
>
> What am I missing?  Thanks in advance

Hi Stephen,

  On my system (SuSE 7.0), dos2unix is aliased to "recode ibmpc..lat1". 
 The recode command is part of the recode-3.5-172 rpm (at least in my 
version).  It lives in /usr/bin/recode.

Good Luck,
  Richard

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            Richard Witt                   Phone:  (330) 672-0096
Dept. of Physics, Kent State University    Email:  witt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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