Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.

[Charles Wilson]

David Fritz wrote:
> You guys are missing the point.  Charles Wilson mentioned a side effect 
> of the code at issue in the original post and suggested that it was 
> valuable.

I think there is some misunderstanding about the cygutils package.  I 
did not write any of it.(*)  I do not defend any of the design decisions 
that were made by the original coders; it's no skin off my nose -- so 
comments like "It should according to the thinking in this thread." fail 
to move me -- except as a data point that GVanSickle really REALLY 
dislikes the current behavior.<g>

(*) Well, maybe the hexdump program or the silly ascii chart, but it's 
been so long I don't remember anymore.


The d2u/u2d progs were some code I thought, back in the dawn of time, 
would be useful on the cygwin platform -- at least *I* had need of a 
dos2unix converter all the time.  So I found the code, adapted it, and 
put it in my "kit", which was called the "misc" package back then.

Now, I remember, when first porting the code for cygwin, wondering WHY 
it did certain things certain ways -- especially the "check the first 
line and bail out" stuff.  All I could figure, at the time, were the two 
reasons I posted in this thread.

I never said I agree with those reasons -- personally, I hate 'rm -i' 
and the like.  But *I am not willing* to unilaterally change behavior of 
tools that may adversely affect users, without a damn good reason. 
Unfortunately, "it offends a single user's sensibilities" -- even mine 
-- doesn't quite rise to that level.

And THAT's why I asked for more discussion.  I'm getting the feeling 
that a preponderance of users -- at least, the ones actually responding 
to this thread -- dislike the current behavior, or at least wouldn't 
mind a change away from the current Microsoft-Bob-like behavior.  I'd 
like to see what some other users, who haven't yet stated their 
opinions, have to say...

--
Chuck


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