Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:01:46 -0400 To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" Subject: Re: Has CR/LF and cat problem with textutils-2.0 been solved? Message-ID: <20000927130146.F8818@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" References: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D99791717AE@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D99791717AE@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>; from EFifer@sanwaint.com on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:30:31PM +0100 On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:30:31PM +0100, Fifer, Eric wrote: >>This was my point. We fixed ash to do the right thing and I've been >>waiting patiently for the bash maintainer to fix bash as well. > >Is it possible to get a better idea of what the "right thing" is? The "right thing" is for shells to read their input in text mode. How many times does this have to be repeated? >+ Perl has a similar backtick syntax, but is fine handling > binary data. I think it would be wrong to cripple its > binary abilities by setting text mode on backtick input. > However, as cat works now, on a text mount this will fail: Perl is not a shell. We have an immediate problem: bash. bash needs to have its back tick handling "fixed" (I hate to characterise accomodating this CRLF nonsense as fixing anything). I asked the *cygwin* bash maintainer to do this months ago and he has not been responsive in doing this. So, I'm looking for another *cygwin* bash maintainer. There is no reason to throw perl, python, awk, sed, or gnuplot into the mix and theorize about a grand unified plan for what to do whenever program 'foo' finds a backtick. We just need someone who is willing to make the changes to bash. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com