Stone Studio

The

utility is part of the

software package; give the command

to install the package. Gibe the following command to convert a file named memo.txt (created with a text editor) to a DOS-format file:

$ unix2dos memo.txt

Without any options unix2dos overwrites the original file. You can now email the file as an attachment to someone on a Windows or Mac system. Similarly, you can use

$ dos2unix memo.txt

You can also use

to change a Windows or Mac text file into a Linux text file. In the following example, the

option causes

to remove

s (represented by

) as it makes a copy of the file:

$ cat memo | tr -d ‘\r’ > memo.txt

the greater than (

) symbol redirects the standard output of

to the file named memo.txt.