Originally posted by: the_smit

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone of you know where I can get (for free) the unix2dos software for AIX 5.3?
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Originally posted by: orphy

You could have found the answer yourself in 5 seconds. Here's what I did:

google.com
search for "unix2dox aix"

and the first link brought me to

http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Unix2dos
Orphy
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Originally posted by: the_smit

yeah I saw that too, but the link for the AIX installer is not working.
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Originally posted by: orphy

By "AIX installer", did you mean smitty installp? If so, you should use the rpm command to install this since this is an RPM, not an LPP. I just grabbed it and it worked for me.
> oslevel -s
5300-07-02-0806
> ls -l unix2dos-2.2-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 8819 Jul 20 08:55 unix2dos-2.2-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
> rpm -ivh unix2dos-2.2-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
unix2dos ##################################################
> rpm -qa|grep unix2dos
unix2dos-2.2-1
> rpm -ql unix2dos-2.2-1
/opt/freeware/bin/unix2dos
/opt/freeware/doc/unix2dos-2.2
/opt/freeware/doc/unix2dos-2.2/COPYRIGHT
/opt/freeware/man/man1/unix2dos.1
/usr/bin/unix2dos
> ls -l /opt/freeware/bin/unix2dos
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 15662 Sep 26 2008 /opt/freeware/bin/unix2dos
> /opt/freeware/bin/unix2dos -h
unix2dos 2.2 Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Benjamin Lin. (1995.03.31)
Usage: unix2dos -hkqV http://-o file ... -c convmode http://-n infile outfile ...
-h --help give this help
-k --keepdate keep output file date
-q --quiet quiet mode, suppress all warnings
always on in stdin->stdout mode
-V --version display version number
-c --convmode conversion mode
convmode ASCII, 7bit, ISO, default to ASCII
-o --oldfile write to old file
file ... files to convert in old file mode
-n --newfile write to new file
infile original file in new file mode
outfile output file in new file mode
>
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Originally posted by: hdkutz

Hello,
i use this in a small script named unix2dos:
<snip>
#!/usr/bin/perl -pi
s/\n/\r\n/;
<snip>
Syntax:
unix2dos <FILE_TO_CONVERT>

Cheers,
ku
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