Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:42:37 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos2unix Message-ID: <372DEE1C.8094F48A@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <199905012136.RAA13575@www.netlabs.net> <372B84B3.754462DB@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990503090505.D1719@fisicc-ufm.edu>
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Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 05:48:20PM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> > There is an open PR (submitted port) with that description. I think there is
> > one version available somewhere in the sites that
> > carry lyx, but www.ftpsearch.com knows for sure.
> >
> > IMHO (and only IMO) it should be part of the base system, as it is referred
> > to by the doscmd man page.
> >
> > Pedro.
>
> in doscmd the program is actually called bsd2dos(1) and it doesn't exist.
> IMHO dos2unix and unix2dos should be part of the base system. I know it's
> trivial to make a perl command line that does exactly that, but these binaries
> only take a couple of bytes and are more obviuos to the regular newbie than
> perl.
>
bsd2dos and dos2bsd exist in BSDI, where doscmd comes from. FWIW I submitted an URL for this utility as a PR once, but it was never
committed. The site disappeared later.
Actually what I have seen around is a /bin/sh script.
cheers,
Pedro.
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