Both MusiXTeX preprocessors pmx (pmxab) and M-Tx (prepmx) are
extremely particular about the end-of-line format of the source files
they are processing. Hence as the file formats of DOS and unix differ
in this respect attempts to launch the unix versions of these
programmes on source files edited under DOS will unevitably
fail. (This is of course true for the opposite case as well).

dos2unix is a utility for converting files with DOS end-of-line format
(\r \n) to Unix end-of-line format (\n). It can be used as an
alternative to the much more elaborate GNU utility 'recode'.

It consists of 2 components, a c program 'lf2cr' performing the
conversion of end-of-line from DOS- to Unix format and a shell script
'dos2unix' making use of 'lf2cr'. To make use of 'dos2unix' you must
first compile the c-source 'lf2cr.c':

make lf2cr

Copy both the compiled program 'lf2cr' and the shell script 'dos2unix'
to a directory within your PATH environment and make sure that the
shell script has execution permisions:

chmod a+x dos2unix

You perform the end-of-line conversion by simply saying something like

dos2unix my_score.pmx

Enjoy

Christian Mondrup <scancm@biobase.dk>