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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
Message-ID: <40970002@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 89 17:30:14 GMT
References: <89Feb9.123853est.2662@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu>
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noworol@eecg.toronto.edu (Mark Noworolski) writes:
>Very frequently when I get stuff off the net I run into the problem of
>no carriage returns. It appears that UNIX stores text a little differently
>from Messdos.
>
>Bafore writing something to fix this problem... I figure somebody's probably
>already done it.
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I wrote the following program to do just that:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <io.h>

main()
  {
  int ch;

  ch = getchar();
  
  while (ch != EOF)
    {
    putchar(ch);
    ch = getchar();
    }
  }

This was written in Turbo C 1.5, but I doubt that other compilers would
have a problem with it (famous last words?).  For compatibility with
Unix, the putchar function adds a CR when you output an LF, so all you
have to do is read the input file and write the output file, ignoring
the Unix/DOS difference.  If you compile and link the above to 
unix2dos.exe, then to run it just type

     unix2dos <unixfile >dosfile

(substituting your own file names, of course).  

John Hardin
hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com
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