Dos2Unix
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Dos2Unix and Unix2DOS or are utilities that convert DOS style text files to and from UNIX/Mac style text files. Originally developed for SunOS in the late 1980's by John Birchfield with a later re-write by Benjamin Lin, they have by now been forked into almost endless variants available for most platforms in one variant or another.
However this version developed by Erwin Waterlander that is available for DOS, and MS Windows in addition to eComStation, not only includes all common patches from the UNIX versions but adds a number of fixes and features specific to this variant including internationalization and Unicode support.
Features
- Automatically skips binary and non-regular files
- In-place, paired, or stdio mode conversion.
- Keep original file dates option.
- 7-bit and iso conversion modes like SunOS dos2unix.
- Conversion of Unicode UTF-16 files.
- Handles Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM)
- Display file information
- Secure
In addition the Windows and DOS versions feature:
- Native language support for Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese in both simplified and traditional variants, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmaal, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Versions
- Last OS/2 & eComStation version: Dos2Unix 7.3.1 (2015-09-30). Available in versions compiled using GCC and Watcom C
- Last MS Windows and DOS version: Dos2Unix 7.3.2 Beta
- Note that this version only contains fixes for building on MS Windows using MiniGW, so no point in compiling that version for OS/2.
Prerequisites
- GCC runtime for the GCC compiled version
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License
- Open source software released under the Two Clause BSD License.
Authors
- Benjamin Lin - (Original author)
- Erwin Waterlander - (Current maintainer)
- Elbert Pol (OS/2 & eComStation port)