whatever happened to unix2dos and dos2unix?

On 2009-09-18 05:52 +0200, terryc wrote:

> They are not in leeny?
>
> Just spent a frustrating hour trying to feed a text file into a web form
> on a windows server and wondering WTF.
>
> Then it clicked, I needed unix2dos conversion.
>
> And when I went looking for it, it wasn't in lenny.
>
> What happened with it?

It's in the tofrodos package.

Sven

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:56:18 +0000, jellybean stonerfish wrote:


>> What happened with it?
>
> Is it hiding from you?????

Yes
>
> apt-cache search dos2unix
> tofrodos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos

baah, silly aptitude and I was told it was so much better than apt-*

Thanks.

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:57:32 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> It's in the tofrodos package.

Thanks.

On 2009-09-18 06:58 (UTC), terryc wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:56:18 +0000, jellybean stonerfish wrote:
>> apt-cache search dos2unix
>> tofrodos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos
>
> baah, silly aptitude and I was told it was so much better than apt-*

I'm not sure what you mean but I guess you didn't try to search from
packages' descriptions (~d) with aptitude:

aptitude search ~ddos2unix

"terryc" <newsninespam-spam RemoveThis @woa.com.au> wrote in message
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>
>
> They are not in leeny?
>
> Just spent a frustrating hour trying to feed a text file into a web form
> on a windows server and wondering WTF.
>
> Then it clicked, I needed unix2dos conversion.
>
> And when I went looking for it, it wasn't in lenny.
>
> What happened with it?

As others have said, it's in the tofrodos package.

But if you ever need to do it without installing that package (say you're
offline somewhere - it does happen), you can do it in nano:

1. Open the text file with nano

2. Press Ctrl-O (not zero) to write the file

3. Before confirming the filename, press Alt-D to toggle between DOS and
Unix formats.

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