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#### Overcome some differences between Dos and Unix

The following listing contains the interface of the DosUnix unit.

This unit is there to overcome some of those differences between Dos and Unix systems that are not automatically hidden by GPC and the Run Time System. Currently features translation of bash style input/output redirections (`foo 2>&1`) into `redir` calls for DJGPP (`redir -eo foo`) and a way to read files with Dos CR/LF pairs on any system.

When necessary, new features will be added to the unit in future releases.

         { Some routines to support writing programs portable between Dos and
           Unix. Perhaps it would be a good idea not to put features to make
           Dos programs Unix-compatible (shell redirections) and vice versa
           (reading Dos files from Unix) together into one unit, but rather
           into two units, DosCompat and UnixCompat or so -- let's wait and
           see, perhaps when more routines suited for this/these unit(s) will
           be found, the design will become clearer ...

           Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

           Author: Frank Heckenbach <frank@pascal.gnu.de>

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         {$gnu-pascal,I-}
         {$if __GPC_RELEASE__ < 20030412}
         {$error This unit requires GPC release 20030412 or newer.}
         {$endif}

         unit DosUnix;

         interface

         uses GPC;

         { This function is meant to be used when you want to invoke a system
           shell command (e.g. via Execute or Exec from the Dos unit) and
           want to specify input/output redirections for the command invoked.
           It caters for the different syntax between DJGPP (with the redir
           utility) and other systems.

           To use it, code your redirections in bash style (see the table
           below) in your command line string, pass this string to this
           function, and the function's result to Execute or the other
           routines.

           The function translates the following bash style redirections
           (characters in brackets are optional) into a redir call under Dos
           systems except EMX, and leave them unchanged under other systems.
           Note: redir comes with DJGPP, but it should be possible to
           install it on other Dos systems as well. OS/2's shell, however,
           supports bash style redirections, I was told, so we don't
           translate on EMX.

           [0]<     file      redirect standard input from file
           [1]>[|]  file      redirect standard output to file
           [1]>>    file      append standard output to file
           [1]>&2             redirect standard output to standard error
           2>[|]    file      redirect standard error to file
           2>>      file      append standard error to file
           2>&1               redirect standard error to standard output
           &> file            redirect both standard output and standard
                              error to file }
         function  TranslateRedirections (const Command: String) = s:
           TString; attribute (name = '_p_TranslateRedirections');

         { Under Unix, translates CR/LF pairs to single LF characters when
           reading from f, and back when writing to f. Under Dos, does
           nothing because the run time system alrady does this job. In the
           result, you can read both Dos and Unix files, and files written
           will be Dos. }
         procedure AssignDos (var f: AnyFile; const FileName: String);
           attribute (name = '_p_AssignDos');

         { Translates a character from the "OEM" charset used under Dos to
           the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character set. }
         function  OEM2Latin1 (ch: Char): Char; attribute (name
           = '_p_OEM2Latin1');
         function  OEM2Latin1Str (const s: String) = r: TString; attribute
           (name = '_p_OEM2Latin1Str');

         { Translates a character from the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character set
           to the "OEM" charset used under Dos. }
         function  Latin12OEM (ch: Char): Char; attribute (name
           = '_p_Latin12OEM');
         function  Latin12OEMStr (const s: String) = r: TString; attribute
           (name = '_p_Latin12OEMStr');