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Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

On 03/15/2011 11:17 PM, Eric Blake wrote: 

dos2unix is already part of cygwin.  'cygcheck -p dos2unix' shows that
it is part of cygutils, so I see no reason to repackage it as an
alternative build.

Hi,

dos2unix on cygwin is different, it is 'conv'. The implementation I propose is used on major Linux distributions. You could keep 'conv' on cygwin. I propose to obsolete the links dos2unix and unix2dos to conv, and replace them with the dos2unix implementation as used on Linux.

Erwin

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