dos2unix vs tofrodos

[COKEDUDE]

Is dos2unix better than tofrodos or vice versa? I remember in the lucid repository it only had tofrodos and not dos2unix. In the maverick it has both.

[bodhi.zazen]

Is dos2unix better than tofrodos or vice versa? I remember in the lucid repository it only had tofrodos and not dos2unix. In the maverick it has both.

I am not sure of the difference between the two (besides package name) and I think you could use either (meaning I do not think one is better then another).

[nealmcb]

dos2unix handles mac newlines also, along with many other character conversions which tofrodos doesn't. But the latter can make backups, etc.

Check out their manpages at

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...fromdos.1.html

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...os2unix.1.html

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