The Sun workstations in SF1106 have floppy drives. You copy DOS floppy
disk files using the Mtools utilities. To get more info, type the
command
man mtools
to the unix prompt to get a list of all the commands.
For example, the command
mcopy a:FOO.TXT unixfoo.txt
will copy a file from the disk called FOO.TXT to a unix file
called
unixfoo.txt.
DOS text files end a line with two characters <carriage return> and
then a <newline>.
The <carriage return> causes the cursor to move to
the beginning of the line and the <newline> tells it to go to the next
line.
In unix systems, only the <newline> is needed to do both functions, so
the <carriage return> character is not needed.
To get rid of the <carriage returns>, you can run
dos2unix unixfoo.txt > fixedfoo.txt
You don't have to do this, but it makes your program format a little better.