Re: ascii files ^M

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 address@hidden wrote:

> Z:\>tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.12
> 
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> 
> Does a later version of GNU tar handle the problem of ^M characters
> being appended onto ascii file records?

Tar doesn't change the files' line-ending format in any way, it
extracts the file in the same form as they were on the source
platform.  So any ^M characters present in the original files will be
present on the target platform.

If you want to remove the ^M characters, you can use one of the
available dos2unix programs (should be already present on the Unix
box).