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On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:47:18 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <8na43b9ce0mtiorf2...@4ax.com> 
>  Tom Hall <aria1946@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 05:42:35 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>>In message <2t403b5d7392doolp...@4ax.com> 
>>>  Tom Hall <aria1946@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:53:41 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon <gor...@panix.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>In <9prv2bltb0469iadk...@4ax.com> Tom Hall <aria1946@gmail.com.invalid> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a dual boot consisting of Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit and ubuntu
>>>>>> 15.04. 
>>>>>
>>>>>> I spent some time researching how to get the game working in linux.
>>>>>> Upgrading wine got the game to load, but in the linux version there are no
>>>>>> addons, and not even an addon entry in the top-level menu.
>>>>>
>>>>>> During my research, I read that you can actually copy your Windows game
>>>>>> folders into their proper place in the wine/drive_c folder, which I did,
>>>>>> and my addons are there. Why doesn't the game see them?
>>>>>
>>>>>Did you quit and restart the game after copying the folder?
>>>
>>>> Yes - multiple times. The game was not running when I copied the files.
>>>
>>>The only things I can think of are pretty obvious.
>>>
>>>Permissions, proper folder tree, ACLs, and line endings.
>>>
>>>(or does wine cover differing line endings in text files between windows
>>>and Linux?)
>
>> I have no idea about the inner workings of wine. I've only been using linux
>> for about a month.
>
>> Acting on information I found online, I copied the entire WoW folder tree
>> from my Windows setup to the proper place in my linux .wine drive_c folder.
>> The game works perfectly, except for the fact that I have no addons. All
>> files and folders in the copied tree have rwx permissions. 
>
>Well, then maybe it is the line endings.
>
>Windows uses different line endings than real computers, and all addons
>are text files.
>
>Windows uses both a CR and a LF at the end of a line. If you open up one
>of the files in the addons and you see a ^M at the end of the lines,
>then that is possibly the problem.
>
>You would need to convert the text files to the right line endings.

First, how do I check this in linux?

Second, assuming that the ^M is the problem, how do I fix it, short of
editing EVERY line in EVERY file? There are hundreds of them.

Tom

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