Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40714FE2.9090204@cs.york.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 13:24:02 +0100 From: Chris Jefferson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Ken Thompson wrote: >I don't think the behavior should be changed. d2u stands for dos to unix >which means \r\n to \n. Why would one expect a dos to unix utility to >convert mixed line terminator files. If you need such a utility, then add >one but don't take a utility that does dos to unix and try to turn it in to >"anything" to unix or if you do then change the name. Just my 2 cents worth > > > And it would agree that it should be changed. I would expect dos to unix to turn \r\n into \n, ignoring the fact it may or may not wander into a \n first. I'd also like to express interest in having this changed. I knocked up my own program to do this, because particularily in cygwin I find it easy to accidentally edit a file in a few different editors and end up with a mess of line endings which need to be all syncronised to one system (of course I could just learn to not mess my files up ^_^ ) Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/