Windows

This article was first written in January 2004 for 
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/101)

There's about time relatives of mine don't want to change their operating system to Linux because they fear to be lost, but commonly use a lot of softwares under "test periods" to assist them in Windows because there's a natural lack of some of these functionalities that you would want your computer to have. Here is a list that will become longer with time of tools from the Open Source Community that run under Win32 OSes like a road-runner would run just in

This article was first written in February 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/203).

The convert carriage returns between UNIX- and DOS-kind of CR, use the tools dos2unix and unix2dos from the sysutils package. Usage is really simple:

$ dos2unix filename

or

$ unix2dos filename

where filename is the name of the file to convert. To convert a hierarchy of files starting from current directory:

$ find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} ;

For more information see the manpages.