Converting DOS text files

[Tom Neff]

In article <1477 at pai.UUCP> erc at pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
>dtox. Unfortunately, dtox is a filter. That is, you call it
>with something like:
>
>     dtox dosfile > unixfile
>
>This is nice, but I have a big problem. I have 30 to 40 files I
>want to un-DOS at a time. 

The solution is to learn how to use the shell.

	for f in *.txt
	do
		g=`echo $f | sed -e 's/txt$/out/'`   # sample.txt -> sample.out
		dtox < $f > $g
	done

I bet even SCO supports this construct. ;-)

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