"dd conv=unblock cbs=80"

[Andrew Klossner]

>> Can't you just do: "dd conv=unblock cbs=80 (or whatever)" to
>> convert the file to standard Unix \n-terminated lines?  Hasn't this been
>> part of Unix since at least v6?

> Apparently not:  neither System III nor System V r3.1 supports it.  (I used
> "strings" on both systems, to make sure it wasn't merely undocumented).

Either your "strings" is busted or you have a crippled V3.1.  The
vanilla AT&T 3.1 source tape includes a dd.c that implements this
command.

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