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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: jcs@dhi.dk, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: dos2ux
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> could anybody tell how to get rid of all the strange characters
> which appear when I get a file from DOS. I work also in 
> a HP machine and there we have a command called dos2ux,
> but we do not have it in FreeBSD.

Go to the FreeBSD web page and search questions for "MS-DOS text
files in UNIX".

Here's one of the postings made by Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>:

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CUT unix2dos.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -pi
#
# Convert Unix text file to DOS file format.  Conversion is done in-place.
#
# Usage: unix2dos unixfile ...
print STDERR "Converting \"$ARGV\" ...\n" if (eof || ($. == 0));
s/$/\015/;                   # tack on ^M
s/\n/\n\032/ if (eof);       # DOS ^Z at end of file.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CUT unix2dos.pl

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CUT dos2unix.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -pi
#
# Convert DOS text file to Unix file format.  Conversion is done in-place.
#
# Usage: dos2unix dosfile ...
print STDERR "Converting \"$ARGV\" ...\n" if (eof || ($. == 0));
s/\015$//;                   # strip ^M from end of line.
s/\032$//;                   # strip ^Z if we see it (which'll be at EOF).
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CUT dos2unix.pl

here is a couple of perl scripts that I use!
I forgot who wrote em, I sure do thank em!

-Enjoy
Gary
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Dan Eischen
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