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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 14:18:06 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
Cc:        Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dos2unix
Message-ID:  <19990503141805.B7049@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <372DEE1C.8094F48A@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 01:42:37PM -0500
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>

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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.
> 
> 
> 
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