Converting Unix text to windows

mchristisen · #1 (**permalink**) 06-13-2005

I am trying to FTP a text file from a machine running LynxOS and I am having problems with the way windows "sees" the characters. For example this is how windows presents the text:

DevProcRcpClass

The boxes are what I am having problems with. When viewing the same file on a Sun workstation the boxes show up as alphabetical charaters
and the spaces show up with @ symbols.

I set the transfer mode to ascii in a couple of different ftp programs and see the
same both ways. I really know nothing about unix and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

mchristisen · #2 (**permalink**) 06-13-2005

Well the boxes did not show up in front of the text "DevProcRcpClass". The forums dont like it either. Anyway, windows is interpreting the characters as boxes when they really should be letters. Thanks.

d11wtq · #3 (**permalink**) 06-13-2005

Either you're tranferring the file in binary mode rather than ascii mode or you can try using this to fix your problem (sorry I'm a PHP man and don't know a better way off-hand).

Save the following as "unix2dos" filename
------------------------------------

PHP Code:


			
#!/usr/bin/php

<?php



$in = $argv[1];

$out = $argv[2];



$unix_data = file_get_contents($in); //Read the file



$win32_data = preg_replace("#\n#", "\r\n", $unix_data); //Turn linebreaks into carriage returns



$handle = fopen($out, 'w'); //Create new file for writing

if (fwrite($handle, $win32_data)) { //Write the data to the new file

    echo "\n$out created as Win32 compatible file successfully!\n";

} else {

   echo "\nThere has been a problem writing data to $out...\n";

}

fclose($handle); //Close the file



?>

Then simply run:

chmod +x unix2dos
./unix2dos oldfilename.txt newfilename.txt

and voila! A dos compatible file

*d11wtq moderates devnetwork php forums btw

jim mcnamara · #4 (**permalink**) 06-13-2005

Unix has utilities called ux2dos (or unix2dos) and dos2ux (or dos2unix) - FWIW.

try man ux2dos

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