Jim Meyering wrote:
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
these handy little utilities seem pretty standard [to me], yet they lack any
sort of stable homepage and Linux distro's tend to use random versions with
their own set of random patches ...
This much at least I have to say is very true. It's worse when you want
them on non-Linux platforms (the page you gave makes me wonder if they
even build on not-Linux-or-Windows).
any interest in simply integrating these two small utils into coreutils ?
Personally, I use those tools so rarely that I wonder whether it'd
be worthwhile. Do you use them a lot? Have you been unable to find
them when you needed them?
I remember the last time *I* went looking for them, I can't remember if
I succeeded or not, but I certainly remember it taking more effort than
I would have liked. Not that I use them often, either. I think frequency
depends on how often you have to edit a file with 'notepad'. :-) (i.e.
users that also use Windows systems have more need.)
Anyway, that's my $0.02 on a subject which I also find of interest.
(Of course, if coreutils wanted to add these, it should also have
dos2mac, unix2mac, mac2dos and mac2unix, all of which should probably be
symlinks to/copies of one program that changes default behavior based on
its argv[0].)
--
Matthew
"You're older than you've ever been / And now you're even older"
-- They Might Be Giants
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