Unix import of a DOS spreadsheet...

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:51:34AM -0400, Brian K. White achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> Oh come on. Do any of us really not know the correct syntax for import?
> Are there really any new users here who might be confused by seeing the 
> wrong syntax in one email that we have to give him quite such a hard 
> time? The point was just that on windows r=\n will recognize and consume 
> both CR and LF bytes instead of just LF.

I know the syntax for import just fine.  Rarely use it, but recognise
and know it.  That's not it.  No, my "WTF?!" moment came exactly here in
Richard's rhird-last message in the thread or so:

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What Stuart had was \r=\n 
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"\r=\n" makes -zero- sense in -any- context.  It's at that point that I
start questioning what someone is trying to convey.

mark->
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