Can anyone give me a hand with this: I want to export a unix text file to excel. How can I do it? As far as I know if the fields in the unix file are separated by commas it would make it posible for ...

Most every Unix sysadmin has run smack into line ending incompatibilities from time to time. The most common problem is the appearance of ^M characters at the ends of lines in text files that were ...

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization. Each ...

Does anyone know of a way to get Samba to automatically convert Unix text files to windows text files when transfering them to a Windows box? Short of that, what would be a good way to work around ...

In what is probably this century’s greatest advancement in technology, Windows Notepad now supports Unix line endings. This is it, people. Where were you when Kennedy was assassinated? Where were you ...

Carriage returns go back a long way – as far back as typewriters on which a mechanism or a lever swung the carriage that held a sheet of paper to the right so that suddenly letters were being typed on ...