[Mingw-users] [mingw - Unix2Windows2Unix] text file format out of msys cat command

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By: patbyrne

I want to take a directory listing, convert it into a text string and paste
into MSDev6:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
cd /foo/bar
ls -1 *.ilb > ~/a
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I drag the 'a' file into MSDev (or Notepad) to edit it - but it is treated as
a binary file! The carriage-return & linefeed characters seem to have been sent
to file as escape sequences.

Line seperator bytes are {1B,5B,30,6D,1B,5B,30,6D}

I thought the only difference between unix and windows text file was the
'carriage-return' byte - whats with all these crazy escape sequences?

Ta

Patrick Byrne

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