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	Green on Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:59:45 +0000)
Subject: Re: makefile problem
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> From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:59:45 +0000
> > 
> > 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...

Get the version in the DJGPP CVS, and you'll have all those problems
solved.  See http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/cvs.html.

> This _untested_ script should give same behaviour as dtou:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> for f; do
>     col < "$f" > "$f.dtou"
>     mv "$f.dtou" "$f"
> done

This doesn't preserve files' time stamps and mod bits, while dtou
does.