Subject:	Re: Ultrix and names2dos - solution
To:	cwolff AT slowboy DOT intellistor DOT com (Clint Wolff), bergman AT panix DOT com
Date:	Sat, 1 May 93 18:44:38 EDT
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ's GPP mailing list)

Mark Bergman & Clint Wolff--
    Thanks for your help with my Ultrix/names2dos problems.
    It turns out that 'sh' under Ultrix does *not* properly support
'test'.  In particular, test does not accept the '-x' operand to test
whether files are executable.  This is what was causing my problems
with "unknown operators".
    The solution is to use 'sh5', which is (supposed to be) Sys V
compatible, instead of 'sh'.  Its test does support the '-x' operator,
and the distributed form of Bergman's names2dos works fine.

Mark--
    Regarding my suggestion for using names2dos to move (large) Unix
directory trees to DOS machines, this isn't a good idea, even if you
add an option to not change the contents of files.  The directory
collection script is just too inefficient for this purpose.  I suspect
that you'd have to change the program's logic quite drastically to
speed it up, and this might introduce further bugs, and so on.  It
would probably be better to make a new tool from the djtarx code or
something like that.

-- 
 
Stephen Turnbull
The Ohio State University, Department of Economics
410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH  43210-1172  USA
Phone: (614) 292-0654  Fax: ...-3906  Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu

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