LYNX-DEV http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month1297/msg00005.html

[vischne]

>     * Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV editing of INSTALLATION: 386DOS
>     * From: David Woolley <address@hidden>
>     * Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:14:03 +0000 (GMT)

>> Perhaps we should even recommend several editors that are able to work
>> with unix-style end of lines.
>
>The freeware, native Windows and Win 32, editor pfe (Programmer's File Editor)
>will autodetect Unix style stream LF files and will resave them in the same
>format.  I'd recommend this one.  It's also useful over SAMBA and other SMB
>shares to Unix machines.
>
>I think the DOS port of Elvis (a vi clone) can be put into a Unix mode.
>
>write and wordpad will read stream LF, but will alway save in stream CRLF
>format.  The same is true of the EDIT mode of QBASIC under DOS.
>
There is also a Dos (DJGPP) version of pico that works quite well with
lynx.exe.  It helps to use a helper app to convert file slashes from
Unix to Dos before launching editors, sendmail, and the like.