recode vs hd2u

[Auke Kok]

Chad Kittel wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:10:11 -0700
>Richard Pyne <rpyne at kinfolk.org> wrote:
>
>Hi Richard,
>
>On 3/15/05 sofar added some dos2unix and unix2dos scripts to the recode
>Lunar module.  The dos2unix script is the same name (and is installed
>to the same place) that hd2u's dos2unix EOL converter is.  I don't
>quite know the thought behind adding those scripts to the recode module
>(his cvs commit message was "Adding these std tools").  I was the one
>that added the CONFLICTS until something happens so that there is no
>longer a name clash.  I honestly don't know why recode should be the
>provider of dos2unix when hd2u does quite a nice job, sofar thoughts?
>

Pure ignorance... I never knew there was a tool that installed dos2unix 
etc already, and recode has always done nicely what I need it for (and 
seems to be the most powerfull solution for these type of conversions).

sofar