From: Elliott <e.hmlhml@...>
Date: 2005-06-23T00:52:47+09:00
Subject: Newbee: recursively converting LF to CRLF and vice versa

Hello,

I'd like to recursively go through a bunch of directories and for text
file - convert any linefeed (LF) endings to carriage return line feeds
(CRLF).  Ideally, I'd like to be able to do the conversion either way
and to distinguish from binary files (so that I don't bother doing any
changes to these files).  Lastly, I'd like to package this utility as
a standalone .exe for windows for systems that don't have ruby on it.

I'm slowly going through the Picaxe book but I need to get this
utility done and I'd like to do it in Ruby if possible, rather than
resort to some other thing like Java (gasp).  Can anyone provide me
some hints or at least some pointers to parts of Picaxe from which I
could assemble this functionality.

Anything info would be appreciated.

Elliott