From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 3 11:41:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E5514D90 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 11:41:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.44]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA26150; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:40:49 -0400 Message-ID: <372DEE1C.8094F48A@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:42:37 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos2unix References: <199905012136.RAA13575@www.netlabs.net> <372B84B3.754462DB@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990503090505.D1719@fisicc-ufm.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (trimmed the CC line) 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message