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From: Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unix2dos blocks dos2unix
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:44:02
Message-Id: 54184CA9.3030409@fastmail.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: unix2dos blocks dos2unix by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 16/09/2014 15:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 14/09/14 10:24, Gevisz wrote:
3 >> I have just installed unix2dos utility
4 >> (never had a need to use it before) and
5 >> just after that tried to install dos2unix
6 >> but the installation of dos2unix failed
7 >> complaining on the fact that
8 >>
9 >> "app-text/unix2dos" is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5
10 >>
11 >> I find it very strange as I think that if someone
12 >> needs unix2dos utility he usually also needs dos2unix
13 >> utility, especially taking into account that unix2dos
14 >> by default overwrites its input file.
15 >
16 > There's also app-text/tofrodos. It installs two binaries, "todos" and
17 > "fromdos". It solved some problems the other tools had (unix2dos and
18 > dos2unix), but it's been long ago and I don't remember which problems
19 > they were...
20
21 Alternatively:
22
23 cd /usr/local/bin; echo dos2unix unix2dos | xargs -n1 ln -s /bin/busybox
24
25 --Kerin