ok I have a C program that does what I need. but.... I would like to create a program that goes through a whole directory searching for the files that need this program. I don't know how to distinguish which files need this or not? the files are text based from SAS, SPSS. I've looked at the extensions but they are very different EX: (.trn) (.agric) (.scopa) these are just a few. The files come in from either a Unix OS or a windows OS and then archived to fixed length file size and saved on a windows 2000 platform. any other advice?? thanks 
// UNIX2DOS - a Win32 utility to convert single text files from Unix t
+o MS-DOS format.

// Copyright (C) 1998 Clem Dye

// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
// as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
// of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.

// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundat
+ion, Inc.,
// 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

// Additional notes.
//
// The author of the original source code is unknown.
//
// Modified by Clem Dye (clem@bastet.com), December 1998, to compile c
+leanly 
// under Microsoft Visual C/C++ v4.0 (or later) for use on Windows NT.
+ Added 
// exit(1) statements in main() to improve error reporting when the pr
+ogram is 
// used in batch scripts.

// Decoding loop modified 08/08/00 by Johannes Herzig (HerzJoh.EMAX-SE
+@t-online.de), 
// to add 'Carriage Return' only once in the situation that 'UNIX2DOS'
+ finds 'CRLF' 
// combination in files with a mix of DOS and UNIX text file formats.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/utime.h>

#ifndef TRUE
#    define TRUE  (1)
#    define FALSE (0)
#endif

#define R_CNTRL   "rb"
#define W_CNTRL   "wb"

struct stat s_buf;

int u2dos (path)
char *path;
{
    FILE *in, *out;
    int ch,
        prev_ch= 0, 
        rval = FALSE;
    char temppath [16];
    struct _utimbuf ut_buf;
       strcpy (temppath, "./clntmp");
    strcat (temppath, "XXXXXX");
    mktemp (temppath);
    if ((in=fopen (path, R_CNTRL)) == (FILE *) 0)
        return TRUE;
    if ((out=fopen (temppath, W_CNTRL)) == (FILE *) 0)
    {
        fclose (in);
        return TRUE;
    }
    
    #define LF        0x0A
    #define CR        0x0D

    while ((ch = getc (in)) != EOF)
    {
        if (    ( ch == LF)
             && ( prev_ch != CR)
             && ( putc( CR, out) == EOF)
             || ( putc( ch, out) == EOF)
           )
        {
            rval = TRUE;
            break;
        }
        prev_ch= ch ;
    }
    
    if (fclose (in) == EOF)
    {
        rval = TRUE;
    }
    if (fclose (out) == EOF)
    {
        rval = TRUE;
    }
    ut_buf.actime = s_buf.st_atime;
    ut_buf.modtime = s_buf.st_mtime;
    if (_utime (temppath, &ut_buf) == -1)
        rval = TRUE;
    if (unlink (path) == -1)
        rval = TRUE;
    if (rval)
    {
        unlink (temppath);
        return TRUE;
    }
    if (rename (temppath,path) == -1)
    {
        fprintf (stderr, "Unix2Dos: Problems renaming '%s' to '%s'.\n"
+, temppath, path);
        fprintf (stderr, "          However, file '%s' remains.\n", te
+mppath);
        exit (1);
    }
    unlink (temppath);
    return FALSE;
}

void main (argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
    char *path;
    while (--argc>0)
    {
        if (stat (path=*++argv, &s_buf) != -1)
        {
            printf ("Unix2Dos: Processing file %s ...\n", path);
            if (u2dos (path))
            {
                fprintf (stderr, "Unix2Dos: Problems processing file %
+s.\n", path);
                exit (1);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            fprintf (stderr, "Unix2Dos: Can't stat '%s'.\n", path);
            exit (1);
        }
    }
}

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