[ale] dos file in linux?? WTF?

[Michael Golden]

On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:14, tewkewl at mindspring.com wrote:
> Hey guys...
> 
> How does linux/vi know that a file is considered to be a 'dos' file?
> it really never was a dos file...it was a script written on an hp box...but during the move (tar/zip) when we run it on linux, it reports "bash: ./secng.sh: No such file or directory"
> 
> when the file is plainly there and with execute permissions.
> 
> when I VI the file, vi reports [DOS] at the bottom where it has the file name.  Anybody have a clue?


My only guess on how it could do that is to check whether lines end with
just CR or CR/LF. You can use the dos2unix utility to fix that if that
is the problem. If that's not it then I don't know. :-/

Michael 

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