[Pdx-pm] UNIX NL verses MS(DOS) CRLF

[Joe Oppegaard]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 at 9:25am -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> I am processing files on a Windows system from a Linux system that has the
> share as a SMB mount.  I'm using Marc Overmeer's Mailbox collection to
> process spam folders (mailboxen) and any time the process (re)writes the
> file I end up with NLs instead of CRLFs.  This causes all kinds of
> heart-ache and discontent with the users as they can't pop the messages
> back using Outlook.
>    Is there a setting I can use 'perl-wise' to make all "\n" writes be
> "\r\n".  The perlport man pages indicate to me that $/ applies to read not
> write and the example only shows one character being used.
> 

While not the same approach, you could just run the unix2dos utility
(most Linux distros have it) on all the mailbox files after your
program is done processing them.

        -Joe Oppegaard