=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/djgpp/djgpp/src/utils/utils.tex,v retrieving revision 1.13 retrieving revision 1.14 diff -p -u -r1.13 -r1.14 --- djgpp/src/utils/utils.tex 2001/01/20 09:20:39 1.13 +++ /cvs/djgpp/djgpp/src/utils/utils.tex 2001/03/21 17:01:58 1.14 @@ -176,13 +176,20 @@ tar format. An additional bonus of using @code{djtar} is that it can convert Unix-style text files to DOS-style text files, and vice versa. By default, it will write all files exactly as found in the archive, but the -@samp{-u} and @samp{-d} options can change that. +@samp{-u} and @samp{-d} options can change that. @code{djtar} will +always convert DOS batch files to DOS-style text files, if they +have been stored as UNIX-style text files. This is because +@file{command.com} refuses to run batch files that contain +UNIX-style EOLs. @code{djtar} performs a number of file name conversions in an attempt to make the files fit into MS-DOS's restricted file names. Any file ending in @file{.info-@var{n}}, where @var{n} is a number, becomes @file{.i@var{n}}. Any file ending in @file{.tar.gz} becomes -@file{.tgz}. Any @file{++} string within a file name becomes @file{xx}. +@file{.tgz}. Any file ending in @file{.tar.bzip2}, @file{.tar.bz2} +or @file{.tar.bz} becomes @file{.tbz} and any file ending in +@file{.bzip2} becomes @file{.bz2}. Any @file{++} string within +a file name becomes @file{xx}. Any leading dots are changed to underscores (but current and parent directories, @file{./} and @file{../} are left alone). Any remaining multiple dots are changed to dashes, unless the part before the dot is