From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Conversion between DOS and Unix text files (was heroic stuff) Date: 5 Sep 1992 12:16:54 GMT
B.J.Lippolt@research.ptt.nl writes:
>In the 'dosfs' package are two tools (fromdos and todos) to convert text
>files between Unix and DOS format.
I use Rahul Dhesi's flip program myself. Haven't tried fromdos/todos.
>You can even mount DOS partitions in such a way that the conversion is
>done automatically.
I don't think this is a particularly good idea, since it can easily lead
to unwanted conversions, like in this case when a shell script was
converted and no longer worked. Your mileage may act differently, of
course.