DOS/Windows text files use "newline" and "carriage return" characters to end a line of text. Unix only uses the "newline"
character; it doesn't recognize the "carriage return" character. So these "carriage return" characters need to be stripped
out of the files DOS/Windows text files in order to use them in a Unix system. And, by the same token, these characters
need to be added into Unix text files in order to use them in a DOS/Windows system.
This is what Unix Edit does.
After you download a copy of Unix Edit, you'll need to UNZIP (decompress) it and install it on your home computer.
Once you have it installed on your computer, start it up. Here's what it looks like.
Note: When you convert files, the files are actually changed and saved in the new format. If you wish to keep the files that you start with, you should copy the files to another directory (folder) before proceeding with the conversion.
Now, to convert files, click on the toolbar button that has the two "opposite-pointing" arrows on it. You'll get a dialog box like this. . .
Click on the appropriate conversion button ("PC to Unix" or "Unix to PC")
to get the "Open" dialog box. Use this dialog box to find the files that you
would like to convert.
Click on the files to highlight them. You can highlight several files by holding down
either the "Shift" or "Ctrl" key while clicking.
Then click the "Open" button in the "Open" dialog box. . . and then click the "OK" button in the "Convert Files" dialog box.