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On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:52:17PM +0200, Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr wrote: >In http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg01160.html >>Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>I have uploaded a new version of sed to pub/cygwin/latest/sed >>on sourceware.cygnus.com. <snip> >> >>The new feature of that version is that it reads all files always in >>text mode so that files are correctly read when they have dos file >>endings in binary mounted directories as well. > >Thanks for the effort Corinna. Although I understand the reason isn't >this pushing it too far? When working on a binary mounted system I >would expect sed to work exactly as on Unix. Although perhaps rare, >aren't there legitimate reasons to want to keep a \r at the end of a >line? Sed is often used in fairly complicated fashions that may now be >broken. Also, does your change apply to piped stdin? I would withdraw >this comment if there was anything in the sed documentation to the >effect that \r\n is equivalent to \n. Corinna did this at my request. The bottom line is that this will solve thousands of problems while possibly breaking a handful of uses. If it becomes an issue we can always add a --binary option to sed. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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