RE: ascii files convertion UNIX <--> windows ? - toasters

16 Jan 2002


      you can download the mtools utility
(http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/system/mtools/src/) to get the
dos2unix/unix2dos functionality as well as others. Other sites for finding
dos2unix are:
http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/RPM/dos2unix.html
http://www.bastet.com/software/software.html --this is a win32 port
http://jon.kw.net/download/dos2unix/
and these are just a few.  A web search on dos2unix and mtools turned up
several sources for both.
Noelette Stout
Unix System Administrator
IKON Office Solutions, Inc
Digital Express
tel. (770)326-4140
fax (770)326-4139
email: nstout@ikon.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@netapp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 3:13 PM
To: Stout, Noelette
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: ascii files convertion UNIX <--> windows ?
...
On the UNIX side, you can also use the dos2unix and unix2dos commands.
That depends on the UNIX; Digital UNIX 4.0, for example, doesn't have
those commands, unless they're in a component we didn't install:
hostname$ uname -sr
    OSF1 V4.0
    hostname$ dos2unix
    ksh: dos2unix:  not found
    hostname$ unix2dos
    ksh: unix2dos:  not found
The same applies to HP-UX 11.00:
hostname$ uname -sr
    HP-UX B.11.00
    hostname$ dos2unix
    ksh: dos2unix:  not found
    hostname$ unix2dos
    ksh: unix2dos:  not found
and, for that matter, to whatever version of Red Hat Linux is on some
machines here:
hostname$ uname -sr                                         
    Linux 2.2.14-6.1.1
    hostname$ dos2unix
    ksh: dos2unix: not found
    hostname$ unix2dos
    ksh: unix2dos: not found
I would not, however, be surprised to hear that there's a GNU utility
that'll convert between DOS/Windows and UNIX text file format.