Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Converting DOS text files
Keywords: SCO ODT
Message-ID: <15964@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 04:07:45 GMT
References: <1477@pai.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1477@pai.UUCP> erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
>dtox. Unfortunately, dtox is a filter. That is, you call it
>with something like:
>
>     dtox dosfile > unixfile
>
>This is nice, but I have a big problem. I have 30 to 40 files I
>want to un-DOS at a time. 

The solution is to learn how to use the shell.

	for f in *.txt
	do
		g=`echo $f | sed -e 's/txt$/out/'`   # sample.txt -> sample.out
		dtox < $f > $g
	done

I bet even SCO supports this construct. ;-)

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