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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: GNU sed: (forced?) automatic LF conversion
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 04:29:57 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On May 1, 3:04=A0am, Eli Zaretskii <e DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
> > From: Rugxulo <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com>
> > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:08:03 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > =A0 =A0Just curious if anyone knows why the DJGPP port of GNU sed *alwa=
ys*
> > changes a *nix LF text file into DOS CR+LF? Not a huge deal, but I can
> > imagine some rare cases it wouldn't be convenient. (In any case it's
> > unexpected, but since we're in DOS anyways ....) I wonder if this is
> > intentional or just the libc doing this or what.
>
> It's intentional, in the sense that the person who ported Sed
> deliberately decided not to use binary-mode output, for the reason
> pointed out by DJ.
>
> There are scripts and batch files out there that rely on the fact that
> the following command converts a Unix-style text file to a DOS-style
> file:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 sed -e '' < unix.txt > dos.txt

Well, that's fine, and I was aware of that, just thought it was bad
manners to change a file without asking.   ;-)
It's not the end of the world, esp. since we have dtou and utod (which
should be combined, IMHO). Just that some tools still can't handle one
or the other, so you have to be careful.