09-07-2009
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Originally Posted by
dtdt
i have no idea what's happening. any suggestions?
Since you don't show us any real example of what your file looks like we are left to guesses. Therefore the following is again - a guess (btw.: my code worked perfectly on AIX, Solaris and Ubuntu Linux - more Unix/Linux dialects i don't have at hand but probably nothing will change the result).
Files are different in Windows/DOS and UNIX. The reason is that newlines are encoded differently. In UNIX dialects a newline is encoded in a single character, a "^M" (control-m), the linefeed character. In DOS/Windows a newline is encoded in two characters, a CR (carriage return) and a LF (line feed).
Create a file under UNIX (issue "cat > unixfile", then start typing, press "control-D" to end the input) and get a file created under Windows. Now issue "od -ax dosfile | more" and "od -ax unixfile | more" in two windows and observe the difference.
If this is the case with your file try "ASCII mode" when you are transferring it via ftp from DOS to UNIX and vice versa. The ASCII mode (instead of "binary" mode, which is default) takes care of exactly this thing.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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mcopy(1) General Commands Manual mcopy(1)
Name
mcopy - copy MSDOS files to/from Unix
Note of warning
This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the
end of this man page for details.
Description
The mcopy command is used to copy MS-DOS files to and from Unix. It uses the following syntax:
mcopy [-bspanvmQT] [-D clash_option] sourcefile targetfile
mcopy [-bspanvmQT] [-D clash_option] sourcefile [ sourcefiles... ] targetdirectory
mcopy [-tnvm] MSDOSsourcefile
Mcopy copies the specified file to the named file, or copies multiple files to the named directory. The source and target can be either
MS-DOS or Unix files.
The use of a drive letter designation on the MS-DOS files, 'a:' for example, determines the direction of the transfer. A missing drive
designation implies a Unix file whose path starts in the current directory. If a source drive letter is specified with no attached file
name (e.g. mcopy a: .), all files are copied from that drive.
If only a single, MS-DOS source parameter is provided (e.g. "mcopy a:foo.exe"), an implied destination of the current directory (`.') is
assumed.
A filename of `-' means standard input or standard output, depending on its position on the command line.
Mcopy accepts the following command line options:
t Text file transfer. Mcopy translates incoming carriage return/line feeds to line feeds when copying from MS-DOS to Unix, and vice-
versa when copying from Unix to MS-DOS.
b Batch mode. Optimized for huge recursive copies, but less secure if a crash happens during the copy.
s Recursive copy. Also copies directories and their contents
p Preserves the attributes of the copied files
Q When mcopying multiple files, quits as soon as one copy fails (for example due to lacking storage space on the target disk)
a Text (ASCII) file transfer. ASCII translates incoming carriage return/line feeds to line feeds.
T Text (ASCII) file transfer with character set conversion. Differs from -a in the ASCII also translates incoming PC-8 characters to
ISO-8859-1 equivalents as far as possible. When reading DOS files, untranslatable characters are replaced by '#'; when writing DOS
files, untranslatable characters are replaced by '.'.
n No confirmation when overwriting Unix files. ASCII doesn't warn the user when overwriting an existing Unix file. If the target file
already exists, and the -n option is not in effect, mcopy asks whether to overwrite the file or to rename the new file (`name
clashes') for details). In order to switch off confirmation for DOS files, use -o.
m Preserve the file modification time.
v Verbose. Displays the name of each file as it is copied.
Bugs
Unlike MS-DOS, the '+' operator (append) from MS-DOS is not supported. However, you may use mtype to produce the same effect:
mtype a:file1 a:file2 a:file3 >unixfile
mtype a:file1 a:file2 a:file3 | mcopy - a:msdosfile
See Also
Mtools' texinfo doc
Viewing the texi doc
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items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this translation process. Indeed, these items have no appropriate repre-
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./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi
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./configure; make html
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