On Thursday 24 February 2005 18:14, H. Streit wrote: >Okay, one of our programmers wants to start porting over a unix app > he wrote to *shudder* windows. In order to do this, he's mounted > his home directory to his windows box via samba, now he's trying to > copy over the sourcecode, but he's having that infamous > "UNIX-to-DOS text file format" issue (a.k.a LF vs CRLF). He's > trying to write a batch file using gvim to convert all these > files...and everything works if you type-out everything at the > cmd.exe prompt, but the batch file won't batch...here's what he's > got > >gvim -c "set ff=dos" -c "saveas source.i" -c x > -<H:\username\src\source.i gvim -c "set ff=dos" -c "saveas > source.h" -c x -<H:\username\src\source.h gvim -c "set ff=dos" -c > "saveas source.c" -c x -<H:\username\src\source.c > >any suggestions? Yes, copy the whole thing as is to a tempdir on the linux box, then run a bash script that applies 'tr' to all the files with the correct syntax, and when thats done, then copy it to the (spit) windows box & throw away the tempdir. Faster than I just wrote the description unless you got tomatoe cans and string for a network connection. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
