Andrew Piskorski suggested this one-liner to me to batch convert files from Windows to Unix line endings (in a Unix env):
find . -type f -print | xargs fromdos
If you are going to edit Unix files from Windows, I recommend Emacs, which gracefully handles the line ending issue.
It doesn't sound like Douillard actually wants to run dotLRN on Windows, but since Don brings it up... 😊 Win32 support should be going into the AOLserver 4 branch soon, but probably after the next beta release is tagged. I've also sent the ACT information on the AD13 commands 4.0 needs to fully support OpenACS. I don't expect those in the upcoming beta either, but presumably for 4.0 final.
