From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 3 12:17:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw4adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (mail-gw4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C73F14DEF for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ppp-207-193-13-171.hstntx.swbell.net [207.193.13.171]) by mail-gw4adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17538; Mon, 3 May 1999 14:17:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA08553; Mon, 3 May 1999 14:18:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 14:18:06 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: Oscar Bonilla , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos2unix Message-ID: <19990503141805.B7049@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <199905012136.RAA13575@www.netlabs.net> <372B84B3.754462DB@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990503090505.D1719@fisicc-ufm.edu> <372DEE1C.8094F48A@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: <372DEE1C.8094F48A@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 01:42:37PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 3, 1999, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > (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. I've submitted a followup containing the final port directory. It has dos2bsd and bsd2dos, and mac2bsd/bsd2mac as well. Sorry for being late, I'm very busy lately. > > 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 > -- Chris Costello As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. - Weisert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message