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From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CrossDos sources
Message-ID: <482A02WA51kX01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 1 Sep 89 16:01:40 GMT
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Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX
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>Subject: Re: CrossDos sources
>
>ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu asks:
>
>>  Does CrossDos do CRLF<-->LF conversion on text files?
>
>Yes, you request it by embedding a 'flag' character (I think it's "[")
>anywhere within the file name.
>
>   --- Cal Jones
>       Hobbit Hole BBS, 904-243-6219, 12/24/9600HST
>       340Meg online. Strictly Amiga.

You append a ']' character to the file name to do the conversion.

When reading the file, the ']' causes all carrage returns and EOFs (Ctrl-Z)
to be removed from the file. When writing to a MSDOS file, the ']' causes
carrage returns to be addrd before all linefeeds, and adds an EOF to the
end of the file.

Another note: The demo version od CrossDos has a bug in the TDPatch13
program, that causes it to not work. I called the author, and he gave
me the following patch.... Use NewZap to edit TDPatch13. Search for
two bytes with "0e00". There is only one occurance of these two bytes.
Change the "0e00" to "0380" and save the program. That's all there is
to it.
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