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

[Chet Ramey]

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:03:45PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> >> >Now, do you want all '\r's stripped, or \r\n translated to \n when
> >> >reading command substitution output?
> >> 
> >> \r\n -> \n.
> >
> >OK, bash-2.05 will do that.
> 
> Wow, that's responsive.

Well, geez, how hard can it be?  Here's the change I just made to
subst.c:read_comsub().  Take a look -- I'm really dragging today and
probably made an error.

*** subst.c~	Tue Sep 26 15:19:40 2000
--- subst.c	Wed Sep 27 15:38:09 2000
***************
*** 3361,3364 ****
--- 3361,3372 ----
  
        istring[istring_index++] = c;
+ 
+ #if defined (__CYGWIN__)
+       if (c == '\n' && istring_index > 1 && istring[istring_index - 2] == '\r')
+ 	{
+ 	  istring_index--;
+ 	  istring_index[-1] = '\n';
+ 	}
+ #endif
      }
  

> Are you sure you don't want to make a cygwin
> binary release?  Imagine the prestige, the acclaim!

It's hard to resist, but I have no means to make one.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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