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

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [ mailto:cgf@cygnus.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:00 PM
> To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Cc: chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu
> Subject: Re: Has CR/LF and cat problem with textutils-2.0 been solved?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:03:09PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> >> >However *all* shells (and not only bash) *must* read the standard
> >> >output of command expansion (backtick) in *text* mode, as 
> it *does*
> >> >expect text and is *not* willing to handle binary data there.
> >> 
> >> This was my point.  We fixed ash to do the right thing and 
> I've been waiting
> >> patiently for the bash maintainer to fix bash as well.
> >
> >How about a bug report?  Or maybe an email?  I don't read this list
> >very often, so, unless I get mail about it, `waiting patiently' is
> >probably not going to get the job done.
> 
> I wasn't referring to you.  We have a person who produces cygwin bash
> binaries for distribution.  It's his "job" to interface with you and
> make sure that patches are sent your way.  Unfortunately, he has
> disappeared from view so we're stuck with the usual grousing, 
> confusion,
> endless re-explanation, that people enjoy so much rather than having
> someone step forward to actually fix the problem and make a new binary
> release.
> 
> I know that you could easily fix the problem but I don't expect you to
> produce a new bash tar.gz file.
> 
> >Now, do you want all '\r's stripped, or \r\n translated to \n when
> >reading command substitution output?
> 
> \r\n -> \n.
> 
> Or maybe we should just have backticks delete all of the files on the
> machine that begin with "q" when a \r\n is detected.  People seem to
> like to discuss and theorize and agonize about this and this would
> certainly provide fuel for discussion.

That's a nice idea; how about setting a high-bandwith server to host the new
mailing list that such an important discussion surely deserve :-)

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