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Re: Cygwin but not really question
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
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- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:36:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: Cygwin but not really question
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Vince Rice wrote:
...recently switched to a Mac...I would like use the
conv.c program (u2d/d2u/etc.) on the OS X side.
To extend the OS X's base Unix environment to be more Linux-like -- or
Cygwin-like, if you prefer -- install Fink: http://fink.sf.net/ This is
an APT-based packaging project which pulls in a lot of stuff that you
find Linux and Cygwin, which was left out of OS X. There is a dos2unix
package:
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/dos2unix
So, after Fink is installed and configured for the first time, you just
say "fink install dos2unix", and there you are. You can use Bash
aliases to get 'd2u' and 'u2d' if you don't want to retrain your
fingers. I find 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos' a little more common.
Some people prefer MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/) which does much
the same thing. I happen to have started with Fink and have been happy
with it, so haven't bothered to even try MacPorts.