diff --git a/app-text/dos2unix/DOS2UNIX.C b/app-text/dos2unix/DOS2UNIX.C
index 83f84e8f1..0b4944069 100644
--- a/app-text/dos2unix/DOS2UNIX.C
+++ b/app-text/dos2unix/DOS2UNIX.C
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ int dos2u (char *path)
 		unlink (temppath);
 		return TRUE;
 	}
-	if (link (temppath,path) == -1)
+	if (rename (temppath,path) == -1)
 	{
 		fprintf (stderr, "Dos2Unix: Problems renaming '%s' to '%s'\n", temppath, path);
 		fprintf (stderr, "          However, file '%s' remains\n", temppath);
diff --git a/app-text/dos2unix/UNIX2DOS.C b/app-text/dos2unix/UNIX2DOS.C
index 842fb31e2..47aae3402 100644
--- a/app-text/dos2unix/UNIX2DOS.C
+++ b/app-text/dos2unix/UNIX2DOS.C
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ int u2dos (char *path)
 		unlink (temppath);
 		return TRUE;
 	}
-	if (link (temppath,path) == -1)
+	if (rename (temppath,path) == -1)
 	{
 		fprintf (stderr, "Unix2Dos: Problems renaming '%s' to '%s'\n", temppath, path);
 		fprintf (stderr, "          However, file '%s' remains\n", temppath);