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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: sed and dos format
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:24:34 +0200
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Brian wrote:
> Regarding efficiency, I am strictly talking about the code path.
> Having Cygwin add a \r when the file is written the first time should
> be more efficient than reprocessing the whole thing after it's been
> processed the first time, or at the least reparsing the lines in an
> output filter pipeline to insert \r's.

Of course it would be more efficient, but as I wrote previously - one has to
have the consequences in mind.

>  Again my reply was under the
> context of "lots of files that *must* remain DOS-mode" where
> accidently forgetting a u2d somewhere breaks things just as bad as
> some obscure text-mode bug in some app.
>
> This is beginning to get trollish so I will cease further comment in
> this thread.

 ;-) why is it a troll when you're discussion alternative ways of doing
things? I'm not sure whether this is amusing or something else.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems            --72-->

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