On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:00 -0800, Mirko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to read a windows ascii file on unix & sbcl. I know of
> dos2unix, but I would rather keep the file intact for now.
>
> I tried setting the :external-format keyword to :windows-1257/8, but
> the read statement still captures the carriage return (^M).
>
> Any other options?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mirko
you might be looking for babel http://common-lisp.net/project/babel/ or
flexi-streams
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