mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman) (02/28/88)
I would like to be able to use ZOO under MSDOS and XENIX as a means of moving portable sources between the two operating systems. This causes massive problems due to the CR/LF translation problem. Some means of identifying to ZOO which files are binary and which are not, and to do CR/LF translation upon extraction would be wonderful additions to the program. Is this feasible? Is there a better way of accomplishing what I'm trying to do? -- Mark D. Freeman (614) 262-1418 mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 2440 Medary Avenue ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mdf Columbus, OH 43202-3014 Guest account at The Ohio State University
dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (02/29/88)
In article <7358@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) writes: >Some means of identifying to ZOO which files are binary and which are >not, and to do CR/LF translation upon extraction would be wonderful >additions to the program. Here is an excerpt from the manual for version 2.0: A revised version of zoo is in the works that will be able to write newly-created archives to standard output, and will also automatically perform end-of-line conversion for text files moved between dissimilar systems. It will be upward and downward compatible with existing versions of zoo. "Is in the works" should be interpreted liberally. I use Chuck Forsberg's undos/todos program to do newline conversions, but it seems to be restricted to use by ProYAM owners. You can write yourself a small program to do conversions, simply by stripping all carriage returns, or by adding one before each linefeed. This will work for all text files except those containing line-printer formatting for underlining. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi