to_dos(1)
to_dos, to_unix - convert text files between MSDOS and UNIX
As shipped in IRIX 6.5.19. Unchanged since IRIX 6.5.
NAME to_dos, to_unix - convert text files between MSDOS and UNIX SYNOPSIS to_dos [ <UNIX file> [<MSDOS file>]] to_unix [ <MSDOS file> [<UNIX file>]] DESCRIPTION to_dos converts a UNIX text file into a MSDOS text file by appending a control-M character at the end of each line and a control-Z character at the end of the file. to_unix converts a MSDOS text file into a UNIX text file by stripping trailing control-M and control-Z characters. Both commands can take zero, one, or two arguments. If no arguments are given, the commands act as a filter, taking input from stdin and writing the modified file to stdout. When a single argument is specified, the argument is treated as the name of the input file, and the resulting output is written to stdout. Finally, if two arguments are provided on the command line, the first argument is treated as the input file and the second argument is treated as the output file. EXAMPLES cat /etc/hosts | to_dos > /dev/ttyd2 to_unix /etc/hosts > /dev/ttyd2 to_dos /etc/hosts /dev/ttyd2 BUGS Both to_dos and to_unix are unable to deal with extremely long lines (> 4K).