Unix to Dos text file

[bytehead]

I have a text file generated on a Unix platform. When accessing this file for processing using Visual Basic 6.0, I do not get the needed cariage returns to designate each line of text in the file.

Unix has a command which adds the needed cariage returns, but I am not moving the files from the Unix side until they process through the application correctly.

My question is, is there any Windows 2000 system call which will do this or functionallity in Visual Basic which allows a file to be opened as ASCII text automatically?

 

[petermeachem]

I think maybe the file contains carriage returns, but not linefeeds. Look for chr$(13)'s Peter Meachem
peter@accuflight.com

 

[nonguru]

Hi
You are probably looking for a solution that is a bit
less work than this, but anyway...

In VB you could read the file into a string and then
use the replace function to replace each occurrence
of line feed with a carriage return & line feed.
e.g.
strFileData = Replace(strFileData, vbLf, vbCrLf)

Then write the string back to file...
Does this help?