Patching files with DOS returns

[Scot Hetzel]

On 8/27/05, Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some days ago I submitted a port for the Quake 3: Arena source, released
> by id Software (see PR 84853).
> 
> The patches included with the port (patch-freebsd and patch-make) patch
> some files that have DOS returns (\r\n), so the patches have ^M's at the
> end of each line.
> 
> My question is: will those patches be malformed if they got checked into
> CVS? Is there some kind of clean way to 'dosunix' the entire WRKSRC
> before it gets patched?
> 
Yes, there is a way to use PERL to convert the files from DOS line
formats to UNIX line format. I have a couple of perl scripts that do
this for me on another system.  That's not accessible to me at the
moment.

If the source is distributed in a zip file you can use unzip to
convert the line formats for you, see the man page for unzip.

Scot
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