From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: makefile problem
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:59:45 +0000
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> > 	dtou *.h *.c
> > 
> > In Linux you may have a similar utlity installed, otherwise use `col'
> > in a script.
> 
> One could simply compile dtou and utod on GNU/Linux.  It's free
> software ;-).

First obstacles would be lack of dir.h and dos.h, then these programs
rely on the implicit conversion to CRLF when reading/writing in text
mode...

This _untested_ script should give same behaviour as dtou:

#!/bin/sh
for f; do
    col < "$f" > "$f.dtou"
    mv "$f.dtou" "$f"
done