topic Re: ux2dos in Operating System - HP-UX

ux2dos

Ahmed Samy Amer — Thu, 17 May 2001 07:39:23 GMT

Hi Admins,

I have program that generates a unix format text file, and i want to convert this file to dos format without using ux2dos, but instead i write the characters for line feed and carriage return directly using my program (what ux2dos does) to be readable by Windows.

Thanks.

Re: ux2dos

Vincenzo Restuccia — Thu, 17 May 2001 07:49:36 GMT

Try doscp and in /usr/bin see ls dos*

Re: ux2dos

Stefan Schulz — Thu, 17 May 2001 08:38:49 GMT

As far as i know ux2dos just adds ^M to the end of the lines and ^Z to the end of the file. So you should be able to do something like:

sed -e 's/$/^M/' unixfile > dosfile
echo "^Z" >> dosfile

This should add the necessary sequences to your textfile. Note that ^M is one character - and not to characters ^ and M.

Hope this helps. Stefan

Re: ux2dos

Animesh Chakraborty — Thu, 17 May 2001 08:47:43 GMT

hi
vi the file then

:1,$s/

//

hope this will work
Animesh

Re: ux2dos

Ahmed Samy Amer — Thu, 17 May 2001 10:02:38 GMT

Thank you all,

Your answers helped me a lot, i added \r\n to my program that generate the text files after each line, so files generated on UNIX can be read directly using NFS on WINDOWS.

Thank you all, Best of Luck.