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Dear Christopher,

PLEASE read the three posts (the second one in particular) in the thread
referenced below, and THEN decide who started the "rant". Thank you.

Merry Christmas,

Emanuel



Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:21:40AM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>>On 12/16/2011 11:13 PM, manu0507 wrote:
>>>Notwithstanding the completely preposterous "reply" by Eric Blake (more
>>>of an idiotic acrimony, actually) to my previous post (see
>>>http://old.nabble.com/Igncr-ineffective--tt32983438.html ), there does
>>>seem to be a problem in dealing with Win's CR/LF line endings in
>>>"unusual" lines, at least on Win7-64 (or, to be really precise, on my
>>>Win7-64).  The lines where CR/LFs appear not to be properly converted
>>>to LFs seem to be empty lines (except for the CR/LF, of course), as
>>>well as some other "unusual" constructs (lines ending with ";;CR/LF" in
>>>particular).
>>
>>I don't have Cygwin available at the moment, so I can't try running
>>scripts as you describe right now.  However, the claim that a line
>>consisting of only a CR/LF causing problems with the igncr option makes
>>me pretty suspicious.  "Empty" lines are pretty darn common in bash
>>scripts, and I would expect to have seen many reports of problems with
>>igncr reported here by now if that option didn't correctly handle those
>>lines.
>>[...]
> 
> Hats off to you, Jeremy, for your civility in responding to this rant.
> 
> cgf
> 
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