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Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 22:02:24 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:10:51 +0200, Michael Ross wrote:
> Maybe you can use /usr/ports/converters/dosunix.
> 
> 	Usage:
> 	  dosunix INPUTFILE OUTPUTFILE
> 
> 	DosUnix converts files from DOS text format to Unix text format
> 	by replacing each carriage return & newline pair with a single
> 	newline character.
> 
> does not do backups, though.

If more complex conversions (including character sets) is
needed (which often is the case for non-US "Windows" files),
the "recode" port is very useful:

	% recode cp437..iso8859-1 <file>

It also doesn't do backups, which would be required to do
using a surrounding script.


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