Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:22:19 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:

> [4] The main reason any of this matters to me is because I move lots of
> files back and forth from work (Solaris 2.7) to home (djgpp).

A piece of information (which may or may not be taken as a plug):  as of
versions 20.x, Emacs, both on DOS/Windows and on Unix, detects the
end-of-line (EOL) format of an existing file and preserves the EOL format
when you save the file.  When Emacs creates a new file, it uses the native
EOL format (CRFL, if you do that on DOS), but you can force Emacs to use
Unix-style EOL on DOSish systems, if you want to get rid of the
conversions on the Unix side. 

> I was
> working on the idea of hacking the source for `dtou' to use as a filter
> with the `--use-compress-program=PROG' option of GNU tar.  Then I could
> make a tarball using djgpp that would untar on my Solaris box without
> having then to apply `dos2unix' to the unpack files.

Doesn't zip/unzip and djtar already have this option?

Anyway, if you are thinking about Tar, I think it would be easier to add 
an option to Tar than to use filters.