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From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: pkarc/pkxarc and/or pkzip/pkunzip for unix
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Date: 27 Sep 89 06:40:22 GMT
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Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen)
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hendrick@frith.UUCP (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>Apparently I didn't think enough before posting my previous question on
>this matter.  There is another difficulty.  Unix stores ascii files with
>only a CR for a \n, while both a CR and LF are used for \n in MSDOS.
>The kind of files that I would want to transfer most often would be text
>files.  I could take care of this problem on my PC, or on the Unix
>system.  Before I write a routine to do this, has anybody already done
>it?

The ARC for Unix has an "i" option that takes care of that.
Example:  arc mi download   make an archive named download, move all
files in the current directory into it with newline conversion for
MSDOS.  Of course you don't want to do that with binary files.
Extracting: arc ei upload  extracts all files from upload.arc, stripping
the CR's to  make the files Unix compatible.

Keith
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