MACIFY

Section: Donald Burr (1)
Updated: March 14, 1991
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NAME

macify - convert text files between Mac <--> UNIX

SYNOPSIS

macify [mu or um] [inputfile or -] [outputfile or -]

DESCRIPTION

macify converts text files between UNIX and Macintosh. Since both UNIX and Mac have different EOL (end of line) characters, this is necessary. macify should be used ideally in a shell script or alias, which calls a file transfer program (e.g. xmodem , rz , sz , etc.

macify takes three (3) arguments. The first argument is the direction indicator; it should be "mu" if you wish to convert >From Mac to UNIX, or "um" if you wish to convert from UNIX to Mac. The second argument is the filename to take input from. If a hyphen (-) is specified, macify
will take input from stdin (standard input). The third, and last, argument to macify , consists of the filename to direct output to. If a hyphen (-) is specified, macify
will use standard output (stdout). If the output file already exists, it will be overwritten. If the input file doesn't exist, macify
will most likely not work.

AUTHOR

Donald Burr INTERNET: dburr@ocf.berkeley.edu, 72540.3071@compuserve.COM COMPU$ERVE: 72540,3071 AMERICA ONLINE: DonaldBurr

LIMITATIONS

macify only works on one file at a time. It does not expand wildcards. wildcards. This is being worked on; the next version will probably include this feature.

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