Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:45:04 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Costello <chris@dei.calldei.com> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting text files Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.9903130941520.14551-100000@dei.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990313110215.008de7c0@mail.bfm.org>
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I've already written something similar (but better) and submited it as
a port, unfortunately, I can't send the tarball yet, due to the fact that
I can't read my drive just this moment. Mine converts from DOS to UNIX,
from UNIX to DOS (this is like the dos2bsd/bsd2dos utils in BSD/OS), and
Mac to UNIX, and UNIX to Mac ('special feature').
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The way the FAQ describes the conversion of DOS text files to Unix format
> is unnecessarily complicated.
>
> The simple way is to use my program called tuc (Text to Unix Conversion),
> which can be had from ftp.whizkidtech.net/unix/ . This program converts
> files from ANY OS (not just DOS) to Unix. It also has a command line switch
> (-d) to convert Unix (or any other OS) files back to DOS.
>
> The program is written in ANSI C, so it compiles both in FreeBSd and DOS
> (and anything else with an ANSI C compiler). I use it all the time both
> under FreeBSD and Windows 95. It has not failed me yet.
>
> Feel free not only to mention it in your FAQ but also to distribute it with
> FreeBSD if you wish.
>
> Adam
>
>
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