A message for Jules Colding (sorry to bother everyone else).

2008-10-01 Thread Craig Sanders
Hello Jules. In one of your posts to this mailing list earlier in the year, you mentioned that you had developed an Autoconf macro to detect if the ACE library was installed on any particular system. In this same post you also provided a link to this macro - however it no longer seems to be act

Re: A message for Jules Colding (sorry to bother everyone else).

2008-10-01 Thread Jules Colding
Hi Craig, On 01/10/2008, at 16.22, Craig Sanders wrote: Hello Jules. In one of your posts to this mailing list earlier in the year, you mentioned that you had developed an Autoconf macro to detect if the ACE library was installed on any particular system. In this same post you also provid

sed on binary files

2008-10-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any portable way to process files that contain NUL bytes? I'm working on making m4 1.6 transparently handle NUL, and want to post-process the output to normalize error messages while still verifying that NUL bytes appeared where expected on s

Re: sed on binary files

2008-10-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:51:58AM CEST: > > Is there any portable way to process files that contain NUL bytes? tr? If you only need to compare for equality, then use cmp. > The Solaris man > pages mention that /usr/xpg4/bin/tr can handle NUL bytes, but not > /usr/b