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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'Matthew Smith'" <matts AT bluesguitar DOT org>,
        Cygwin
	 <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: Has CR/LF and cat problem with textutils-2.0 been solved?
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:59:27 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Smith [mailto:matts AT bluesguitar DOT org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 7:59 PM
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: Re: Has CR/LF and cat problem with textutils-2.0 been solved?
> 
> 
> I would be interested in comments from the mailing list.  If 
> people want
> \r's stripped, I will implement the changes.

	...
 
> > I think it is arguable whether cat should strip CRs or not. 
>  It is not
> arguable
> > whether bash's backtick handling should treat its input as 
> text mode.
> >
	...
> >
> > cgf
> >

I don't think cat should strip \r's on input; I quite often use cat to
concatenate binary data :-)

However *all* shells (and not only bash) *must* read the standard output of
command expansion (backtick) in *text* mode, as it *does* expect text and is
*not* willing to handle binary data there.

The problem here is thus IMNSHO in cat but in the shell, so *please* don't
feed the cat with a new bug :-).

Regards,

		Bernard

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