Re: Help and info on line endings

[Todd Denniston]

Frederic Brehm wrote:
> 
> At 12:49 PM 1/28/2004, Scott Reed wrote:
> >>Why don't you check them out on a Windows client?
> >
> >The server which the users (who do not have CVS clients) access the files
> >is running Linux. The files are automatically, periodically checked out
> >and zipped up for download from the server.
<SNIP> 
> As an alternative, you can have your Linux script check the status of each
> file. If the "Sticky Options:" does not include "-kb", then do the unix2dos
> on it. On a checkin, run dos2unix on the same files. WARNING: I don't know
> if the test for -kb is sufficient.

If and Only If there are no "-kb"'s, then there is one other easy option with
the zip included with most Linux Distro's these days:

"-l   convert LF to CR LF (-ll CR LF to LF)"
use `xzip -l [other options]` to create the zips for the windows people and
`-ll` to receive zips from them.

If you have binaries you could build a script that does the `-l zipfile.zip
TextFileList` on known text files and then `-u zipfile.zip BinaryFileList` (I
think) to add the binaries to the zip file.

<SNIP>
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Todd Denniston
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Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter