Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 08:38:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Skip Egley <egley AT albany DOT net>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Tar that converts unix to DOS line endings


On Sat, 26 Aug 1995, Skip Egley wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good tar executable for DOS.  I have tried a 
> couple of them and they do not convert the CR to CR/LF or whatever it 
> is that DOS wants.  I had to write a program to do it myself, but it's 
> a pain to do it when there's lots of files.  It would be nice for tar 
> to do it automatically - isn't there one out there like that?

Why reinvent the wheel?  The program to do this right at your fingertips: 
it's called UTOD.EXE and should be in your bin/ subdirectory of the main 
DJGPP installation directory.  You can call it like this:

	utod *.*

and it will convert all the files.