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Re: New sed in latest
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: New sed in latest
- From: <Pierre dot Humblet at eurecom dot fr>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:11:41 +0200 (MET DST)
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:48:39 -0400, Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> You have my guarantee that when the cygwin mailing list is filled with
> the plaintive cries of people who are trying to process their binary <snip>
The current plaintive voices are about a textmode processing bug in the dll.
Masking that bug by making applications like sed ignore \r even on binary
mounted systems is only a reasonable TEMPORARY (band aid) measure.
Until now users mounting binary file systems had the assurance that the
tools would behave as on Unix. That was great, I hope it will come back.
Otherwise do you plan to keep on "fixing" more applications?
awk (for one) is also "broken" by \r\n :
bash-2.04$ awk 'NF > 1' /u/hello.txt
bash-2.04$ mount -b -f u:/ /u
bash-2.04$ awk 'NF > 1' /u/hello.txt
hello
bash-2.04$
(hello.txt contains "hello \r\n")
Pierre
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