FW: Re: Why is my executabel in DOS file format?

[David Daney]

Meg Abyte wrote:

>
> From Dave:
>
>>
>> Since you know that dos2unix will make it work with your target, what 
>> is the problem with using it?
>
>
> Hmm... same reason I fixed my tire instead of just pumping it up with 
> air every day ;-)
> No seriously, why not make it right to begin with. It just seems odd 
> to everyone I know that we are using Linux etc. and then we are 
> getting this DOS file out of it that we have to teach everyone to use 
> this dos2unix command - then lots of them don't even have dos2unix 
> installed on their PCs, to "fix" the srecord file. The windows guys 
> just think it is funny...

I for one would be quite happy if you "fixed" it, as I also am tired of 
having to run dos2unix on these things.

David Daney.