Converting AIX text files to DOS format

[johnbv]

I was wondering what the equivalent commands in AIX are for copying files to and from DOS format. The HP-UX has ux2dos and dos2ux. Someone suggested doswrite/dosread but this seems to be more for floppy disks.
Help!!

 

[BobMCT]

Quite simple:

doswrite -a inputfilename outputfilename

will do it. It converts the NL to a CRNL at the end of each record. This assumes the outputfilename is to a PCDOS formatted diskette.

The reverse is dosread -a inputfilename outputfilename

where inputfilename is assumed to be on the diskette inserted.

Of course there are other ways but this seems to be the closest to your question.

 

[bi]

But what if you don't want to write the file to a diskette? I think that is johnbv's question.

 

[ouah]

http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/dosunix.html

rd

 

[johnbv]

I was wanting a utility to write to a file rather than the floppy device that the dosread/doswrite does. I tried downloading from ucla website but had proxy/ftp problems.

 

[Boria]

Hello johnbv,
I hope the script below helps you

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# $1 - input (unix format) file
# $2 -- output (dos format) file
rm -f $2 2> /dev/null
cat $1 |&
while read -p ul
do
echo "$ul\015" >> $2
done
regards boria