Heya, Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
|Hi Steffen,
|
|> That is, tr(1) is buggy
|
|tr(1) seems to be behaving as I'd expect. The \n is a control character
oh yes, compilation on CRUX-3 Linux succeeds without any problems,
the font listing is worked from top to bottom.
Now the only problem that remains for me is that
$ ./configure --without-x --with-doc=examples; make
fails with error if `gnu.xpm' cannot be converted because of
missing tools. I'm still the opinion that this is not acceptable
behaviour and that the `touch gnu.eps' should be automatic in such
cases (after a warning message).
|and is being turned into space so you have to add another with echo. It
|thinks 0-0x1f and 0x7f are cntrl.
|
| $ recode /test8 </dev/null |
|> tr -c '[:cntrl:]' - |
|> tr '[:cntrl:]' c |
|> fold -32; echo
| cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
| --------------------------------
| --------------------------------
| -------------------------------c
| --------------------------------
| --------------------------------
| --------------------------------
| --------------------------------
| $
|
|> This doesn't work in the code above
|
|I can get an additional echo to work here, Linux, so I'm not quite sure
|what you're trying that fails?
|
| $ printf '%s\n' foo '.pso sh -c \' ' "echo -n a | tr a b"' bar |
|> nroff -U | grep .
| foo bbar
Hoppla.
?0[steffen@sherwood groff.git]$ printf '%s\n' foo '.pso sh -c \' ' \
"echo -n a | tr a b"' bar |nroff -U | grep .
foo ‐n b bar
| $ printf '%s\n' foo '.pso sh -c \' ' "echo -n a | tr a b; \' ' echo"' bar |
|> nroff -U | grep .
| foo b bar
U-hu
?0[steffen@sherwood groff.git]$ printf '%s\n' foo '.pso sh -c \' ' \
"echo -n a | tr a b; \' ' echo"' bar |nroff -U | grep .
foo ‐n b
bar
Ok but allow me to think a bit about those.. until at least
tomorrow. :)
Ciao
|Cheers, Ralph.
--steffen
