recode vs hd2u

[Richard Pyne]

On 17 Mar 2005 at 15:54, Auke Kok wrote:

> Chad Kittel wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:10:11 -0700
> >Richard Pyne <rpyne at kinfolk.org> wrote:
> >
> >Hi Richard,
> >
> >On 3/15/05 sofar added some dos2unix and unix2dos scripts to the
> >recode Lunar module.  The dos2unix script is the same name (and
> >is installed to the same place) that hd2u's dos2unix EOL
> >converter is.  I don't quite know the thought behind adding
> >those scripts to the recode module (his cvs commit message was
> >"Adding these std tools").  I was the one that added the
> >CONFLICTS until something happens so that there is no longer a
> >name clash.  I honestly don't know why recode should be the
> >provider of dos2unix when hd2u does quite a nice job, sofar
> >thoughts?
> >
> 
> Pure ignorance... I never knew there was a tool that installed
> dos2unix etc already, and recode has always done nicely what I
> need it for (and seems to be the most powerfull solution for
> these type of conversions).
> 
> sofar

Thank you both for the response. Now that I understand, I'll lrm 
hd2u and re-lin recode. 

Thanks for all the work all of the development team do to make 
Lunar the great distro that it is.

--Richard