Text files

Shockwave shockwave at clan-tf20.com
Fri Feb 25 00:16:44 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 17:14 -0600, 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?
> 

You could always FTP them in ASCII mode...




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