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If you want to edit files via telnet on Tivo, download and install the Joe text editor.
If you would rather copy the files to your Windows PC, edit them there, and then copy them back, try one of the following programs. These programs preserve the Carriage Return formating used by Unix text files:
TextPad: http://www.textpad.com/ - Shareware
UltraEdit: http://www.ultraedit.com/ - Shareware
EditPlus: http://www.editplus.com/ - Shareware
Note: If you open a Unix formatted text file on a Windows PC using Notepad, you will see a box at the end of each line. This represents a Carriage Return. Removing this formatting will cause the text file to be unusable by Tivo. When the formatting is removed, the Unix Carriage Return (CTRL+Z) symbol will be converted to a Windows Line Feed.
Convert a file in Windows:
A file called Dos2Unix (as well as a file called Unix2Dos) can be downloaded here. From a command prompt type the command: dos2unix filname.txt
This program will convert the file to Unix format (LineFeed -> CarriageReturn). Using the Unix2dos will convert a Unix file to a Dos file (CR -> LF). An alternative download site is located here. An online, web-based version is available here.
Convert a file in Linux/Unix:
To convert a DOS-formatted text file to a Unix formatted text file, the following command can be run on a Linux machine:
perl -pi -e "s/\r\n$/\n/" < [input_dos_file] > [output_unix_file]
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