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From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
References: <409f8b98$0$313$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr> <40a021d2$0$435$8eec23a@newsreader.tycho.net> <40A074AB.6030904@club-internet.fr> <40a078e5$0$432$8eec23a@newsreader.tycho.net> <40A242C3.5060701@club-internet.fr> 
Subject: Re: charconv like to tool ?
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:59:10 -0400
Message-ID: <TZednY9MetqSHz_dRVn-jg@comcast.com> 


Frédéric STOCK wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> I used this to convert from DOS file (coming from AS400 server) to
> Unix file:
>
> charconv -i pc437 -o pc850 -D dest_file source_file
>
> now I have to convert it from Unix to DOS/Windows
>
> Thank's.
> F. STOCK

I already showed you a program that does this. I found it and built it just
for you. :)
It's called Recode.

http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/index.html#recode

You'll probably need to install oss646b to run the binary
You'll probably need to install groff from skunkware to read the man pages

here is the shortest recipe, assuming the unix box can see the internet and
assuming little else

first, 2 small edits of a couple files so that 3rd party binaries and man
pages will be in your path.

vi /etc/profile , add this line to the end:
  PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin ; export PATH
you may need to edit the PATH= line in /.profile also, since by default
root's /.profile completely overwrites PATH with a new value, not retaining
any of what was set up during login before that point.

vi /etc/default/man , add ":/usr/local/man" to the end of MANPATH if it's
not already there
so it looks like:
  MANPATH=scohelp:/usr/man:/usr/local/man

now get the actual stuff

rftp -g -bh pcunix.com /pub/bkw setup_gnu
chmod 755 setup_gnu
./setup_gnu ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/oss646b/VOL.*
./setup_gnu groff-1.15
wget -q -O - http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/bzip2.tar.Z |zcat |tar xvf -
wget -q -O - http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/recode.tar.bz2 |bzcat |tar xvf -

At this point you should be able to "man recode" and
recode -f 437..850 source_file

note: it recodes the source file itself in-place.
If you don't want to lose the original file, then copy it yourself
beforehand.
cp source_file destination_file
recode -f 437..850 destination_file

It doesn't appear to do CRLF/LF translation, but oddly, it does appear to do
CRLF/CR translation. In other words it can translate between dos and mac but
not either to unix? however dtox and xtod can do that fine. so if you have a
dos file to start, you may want this to replace your previous charconv
command if it altered the line-endings.
  dtox source_file >destination_file
  recode -f 437..850 destination_file

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Wed Dec 17 14:44:07 2008: Subject:   TonyLawrence


Note that "vi" can do this easily.

:set ff=unix

and then write the file, you'll convert dos or mac file endings to unix.

Of course there's :set ff=dos and :set ff=mac too.

You can be more verbose if you wish:

:set fileformat=unix

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