The department recently shifted from Macintosh to PC, and I had dozens of users who needed text files converted. I've written and rewritten various versions of these things over the years, but never seem to have one available when I need it, so I wrote them again.
Why? 'Cos I needed versions that were reliable, fast, and simple. These are M$ Windows programs that simply convert line endings appropriately for text files that are dropped on them. They'll also happily corrupt your binary files, so don't drop a Word document on them.
I never bothered writing Macintosh versions of these, since BBEdit©
has always served well there. On my un*x boxes, I usually pipe the files
through the tr command like so:
$ tr '\r' '\n' < macfile > unixfile && mv unixfile macfile
...or some variation on that theme.
These programs are free, but please read the license about the copyright, license, and warranty. The programs have been used in production for several years, and the bugs seem to be worked out. New features are not planned; they are simple tools. There is no warranty, you assume all responsibility for their use. Please drop a few copies or test files on them and examine the differences so that you are sure you understand them before you drop important files on them. (I always have a backup of important files, anyway. I'm paranoid.)
Fortunately, the programs have never chewed up a file that didn't turn out to be my fault (oops, it wasn't really a Mac file, after all).
Feel free to contact me with any comments, suggestions, or questions you may have.
Enjoy!
...dave