Subject: Re: Has CR/LF and cat problem with textutils-2.0 been solved?
From: Chris Faylor <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:37:30 -0400

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:03:45PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> >Now, do you want all '\r's stripped, or \r\n translated to \n when
>> >reading command substitution output?
>> 
>> \r\n -> \n.
>
>OK, bash-2.05 will do that.

Wow, that's responsive.  Are you sure you don't want to make a cygwin
binary release?  Imagine the prestige, the acclaim!

>> Or maybe we should just have backticks delete all of the files on the
>> machine that begin with "q" when a \r\n is detected.  People seem to
>> like to discuss and theorize and agonize about this and this would
>> certainly provide fuel for discussion.
>
>Why not just remove csh? ;-)

Fine with me.  Is there still time to get this into 2.05? :-)

cgf

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