From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 10 16: 6:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (unknown [209.198.197.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F301E14C9A for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 16:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA07009; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:03:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:03:52 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Oscar Bonilla , "David O'Brien" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where should dos2unix type utils go? Message-ID: <19990510170351.B699@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: <19990510164850.A699@fisicc-ufm.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Fumerola on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:38:44PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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