Re: New sed in latest

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 03:52 PM 6/1/00, Pierre.Humblet@eurecom.fr wrote:
>In http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg01160.html
> >Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> >I have uploaded a new version of sed to pub/cygwin/latest/sed
> >on sourceware.cygnus.com. <snip>
> >
> >The new feature of that version is that it reads
> >all files always in text mode so that files are
> >correctly read when they have dos file endings
> >in binary mounted directories as well.
>
>Thanks for the effort Corinna. Although I understand the 
>reason isn't this pushing it too far? When working on a binary
>mounted system I would expect sed to work exactly as on Unix.
>Although perhaps rare, aren't there legitimate reasons to want
>to keep a \r at the end of a line? Sed is often used in fairly
>complicated fashions that may now be broken.
>Also, does your change apply to piped stdin?
>I would withdraw this comment if there was anything in the sed 
>documentation to the effect that \r\n is equivalent to \n.
>
>
>Pierre



Another point is that binary files with CTRL-Z will also stop "processing"
prematurely as a result.  I suppose this becomes the argument for having
a "binary" (or conversely a "text") flag for sed (and some other tools)...



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