Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:03:52 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where should dos2unix type utils go? Message-ID: <19990510170351.B699@fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990510143809.11205H-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:38:44PM -0400 References: <19990510164850.A699@fisicc-ufm.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.96.990510143809.11205H-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:38:44PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > > I was expecting them to be on the base system :) > > It is. tr(1), sed(1), and perl(1). > yeah, we had a loooong chat in -questions about this. the case was this: in bsdi you have bsd2dos and dos2bsd, in solaris you have dos2unix and unix2dos and so on, so people accustomed to those systems expect to find stuff like that in freebsd. i know that converting a file from cr/lf to lf and vice-versa can be accomplished in at least 10 ways, but if you're converting multiple files it's nice to have a command that supports metacharacter expansions (unlike the perl thing that's in the faq). those programs are sooooo trivial i don't see why they can't be included in the base system. regards, -Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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