From:	chris AT searle1 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Chris Searle)
Subject:	Simplest way to translate file formats.
7 Nov 1998 10:28:53 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<f98110518090800DA.cygnus.gnu-win32@searle1.demon.co.uk>
To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

I've brought down a couple of tarballs for various ported apps for
cygwin, and some have LF line terminated files, some have CR LF files.
Now, all my mounts are binary, and configure barfs on CR LF.

I'm able to fix it by visiting each file in an editor that allows line
endings to be specified and so save them in LF format after which it
works a lot better.

However, I've got one now with hundreds of files, that's going to take
ages to solve - must be an easier way. My bash scripting is extremely
poor, I wondered about using a sed script to replace all occurances,
but a couple of questions:

If I were to create a text != binary mount and work in that would this
still be necessary.

I do have a sneaking feeling I'm missing something, after all, these
are from some of the more commonly visited port sites, and if everyone
had to do this then they would most likely have been changed by now.

If it affects things, I'm bringing them down as .tar.gz files and
using the tar binary from the full distribution as

tar -zxf tarball.tar.gz

This shouldn't put the different line terminators in should it?

Thanks all.

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