From:	Campbell Allan <allanca AT dcs DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Dos >> Unix Conversion
Date:	Mon, 02 Feb 1998 11:44:18 +0000
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> If you copy floppies,
> you'll have to do it yourself. duconv is a program that lives
> on many linux boxes to do that, dtou and utod are two files
> that live in my djgpp directory, I think they came with the
> shell utils.
> Just watchout when transferring data files, I usually forget
> converting them, and that migh bring you major head-ache.

There are a few other methods, a small program called flip for the pc,
will convert either way (even binaries), if your using mtools then add
-t to the mcopy command will convert them over if necessary and a more
roundabout way is to use zip and unzip (-a flag on unzipping, same as
for gzip).

Campbell

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