"Pierre A. Humblet" wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote: > > ... snip ... > > > > They don't work. The saved versions have <crlf> line endings, and > > the newly created files have <lf> endings. I thought that diff > > ignored these differences as long as the files were not binary (no > > <nul>s). The -a option makes no difference. I don't want to > > revise the saved files because that would foul their utility > > elsewhere. > > diff --help > > --strip-trailing-cr Strip trailing carriage return on input.
That works. When I saw it before I thought it referred to MAC line endings. See my other reply on .com and piping anomalies. -- Chuck F ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> USE worldnet address! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/