Re: CRLF fun stuff again...


Subject: Re: CRLF fun stuff again...
From: Duncan Sinclair (sinclair@dis.strath.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2001 - 14:53:07 EST


Marc Miller writes:
>Then perhaps that needs to be added to the other Unix text
>editors. That's a more comprehensive solution than editing netatalk
>anyway. It would allow people to take files produced by *any* *version*
>of netatalk regardless of what the cr/lf setting was set to on that
>machine. My $0.02.
>

OK, so emacs, the Great Satan of Text Editors, (cf. www.theregister.co.uk)
can do mac line-ends. That's because it has too many features, including
the ability to run on Unix and Mac and Windows, so it has to be able to
figure out different line endings.

But how easy would it be to get, say, Sun to change thier version of
vi to do Mac line-endings? And grep, more, less, wc, awk, sed, and
all the other standard unix utilities?

Rather than change all these programs, wouldn't fixing netatalk be
a good idea?

Cheers,

Duncan.



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