Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:55:49PM CEST: > > > ! LC_ALL=C tr -d '\r' < t-xstrtoimax.tmp > t-xstrtoimax.xo > > I hear that there really do exist systems in actual use > > on which tr still does not honor backslash-escapes like \r and \n. > > Which platforms, please? (I use the similar idiom in more than 200 files in > gettext. So I need to know the reasons.)
Solaris 10 /usr/ucb/tr. Not likely to be early in PATH, but hey, people do all kinds of weird things to their path. ;-) Cheers, Ralf