ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

Erwin Waterlander waterlan@xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 16 07:59:00 GMT 2011


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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