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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:38:19 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: perl + automode.o
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In-Reply-To: <3B869484.6253.36FAB1@localhost>; from freeweb@nyckelpiga.de on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:53:08PM +0200

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:53:08PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I compiled a version of miniperl with automode.o linked
>in. First tests shows that it adresses the CR/LF problem.

I don't think that compiling a general purpose programing package like
perl with automode is a good solution.

It just pushes the CRLF problem onto a different class of users.

I wonder if just changing 'chomp()' to eat crlf would be sufficient for
cygwin?

cgf