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Re: [Q]: Split, move and restore files crossplatform
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > MKS Toolkit (neither freeware nor shareware) implements several commands,
> > familiar from Unix, under MS-DOS environment. So you can use split also
> > under MS-DOS environment.
>
> Thanks Omer! Any pointer if you have it handy? As I remember it was some
> Unix emulator with few unix commands available, right?
This is not Unix emulator. Just a collection of *.exe programs which
implement essentially the same action as the correspondingly-named Unix
commands. I don't know if it is being sold nowadays, maybe you can find a
pointer in the WWW.
> But it's not that simple, I'm not sure whether it knows to hadle unix's
> '\n' vs DOS '\n' so you need dos2unix as well...
If you are going to transfer binary files, then this is not an issue.
Otherwise, use todos (Unix->DOS) or fromdos (DOS->Unix).
--- Omer
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