Has CR/LF and cat problem with textutils-2.0 been solved?

[Matthew Smith]

I would be interested in comments from the mailing list.  If people want
\r's stripped, I will implement the changes.

cheers,
-Matt Smith


> I think it is arguable whether cat should strip CRs or not.  It is not
arguable
> whether bash's backtick handling should treat its input as text mode.
>
> >B20.1 and UNIX systems produce the desired result:
> >    bin
> >    c
> >    cygwin.bat
> >    cygwin.ico
> >    d
> >    etc
> >    f
> >    home
> >    lib
> >    setup.log
> >    setup.log.full
> >    tmp
> >    usr
> >    var
>
> Of course *UNIX* produces the desired result.
>
> Anyway, I have Cc'ed the person who volunteered to be the maintainer for
this
> package.  Hopefully he will offer an opinion on this.
>
> If he doesn't I'd like to survey this mailing list for the correct
behavior.
> If it is that cat should strip \r's then I'll drop back to the old version
> unless someone wants to take the time to do more than post bug reports and
> is interested in maintaining the textutils package.
>
> cgf
>


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