XEmacs 21.5.24 Cannot load project file to VS .NET

[Rick Rankin]

----- Original Message ----
From: Tsunhin John Wong <tjw23 at pitt.edu>
To: Robinows at aol.com
Cc: xemacs-nt at xemacs.org; xemacs-beta at xemacs.org
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:40:27 PM
Subject: Re: XEmacs 21.5.24 Cannot load project file to VS .NET


> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Robinows at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 1/30/2006 4:50:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > rrankin1424-xemacs at yahoo.com writes:
> >
> >> I  tried to load the .dsp (VC6 project file) cannot be load onto my VS  .NET
> >> Version 7.1.3088 with .NET Framework 1.1 Version 1.1.4322  SP1
> >>
> >> I was told that the .dsp was corrupted, but I look  through it and find the
> >> text file seems to be alright
> >>
> >>  Any suggestion for me to solve this?
> >
> > I don't understand why you don't understand.  There's a problem with a  file
> > in the XEmacs distribution. Why would you ask on an MS list?
> >
> > In any case, the answer to the original poster's question:
> > xemacs.dsp is missing the carriage returns required by Visual  Studio.
> > VS can compile source files with Unix line endings but the project  files
> > need to be DOSish.
> > Convert the line endings and things should work fine.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> I've tried that, but that's too complicated and I don't know how to write
> a bash shell script to perform the LF -> CR LF conversion (in cygwin)
> the script has to:
> 1. check every files in the compilation directory trees
>   a. to see if it is a text file or a binary file
> (using "file"?)
> 2. if it is a text file, performance a LF -> CR LF conversion
> (but by what program? "sed"?)
> 

Since you appear to have Cygwin installed, have you tried cygwin's 
unix2dos command? Type 'unix2dos --help' for more info. If it's not 
installed, you can install it with Cygwin's setup program by installing 
the cygutils package.

--Rick