Re: terrible Unicode shattering fold(1) command

2008-08-26 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problem 1: Here we see fold -s busy busting apart UTF-8 characters > again still. Unless somebody beats me to it, I will try to look at this problem (though I'm not familiar with how fold is implemented). > Every third chop falls on

Re: terrible Unicode shattering fold(1) command

2008-08-26 Thread jidanni
>> `--spaces' >> Break at word boundaries: the line is broken after the last blank >> before the maximum line length. If the line contains no such >> blanks, the line is broken at the maximum line length as usual. OR the line is not broken <-- new option, please add. JY> FWIW, that is har

Fotran/C linkage on 64-bit machines

2008-08-26 Thread F Nagle
Please forward this note to an appropriate person. In using the g77 Fortran compiler on a 32-bit computer I have no trouble when invoking a routine written in C from a Fortran program. Fortran typically passes the address (i.e. pointer) of its arguments, and my C routine accepts the argume

bug in sort manpage: -k syntax is wrong

2008-08-26 Thread Jeff Lerman
I note that in the manpage for the "sort" utility, the -k flag syntax claims that an "=" should be used between the flag and the argument(s). Quoting: -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1, end it at POS2 (origin 1) This is incorrect and results in an error from "s

Suggestion for tr / transliteration binutil

2008-08-26 Thread smu johnson
Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask this. I think a very handy argument to add to the list of aliases for character classes in tr would be a new one that behaves like [:cntrl:], except that it will not include newline characters in that class. The reason is at work here I deal with XML dat

Re: Fotran/C linkage on 64-bit machines

2008-08-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to F Nagle on 8/26/2008 10:26 AM: > Please forward this note to an appropriate person. You have reached the coreutils list, where we deal with various basic applications: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html In par

Re: bug in sort manpage: -k syntax is wrong

2008-08-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jeff Lerman wrote: I note that in the manpage for the "sort" utility, the -k flag syntax claims that an "=" should be used between the flag and the argument(s). Quoting: -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1, end it at POS2 (origin 1) This is incorrect and results in a

Re: bug in sort manpage: -k syntax is wrong

2008-08-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jeff Lerman on 8/26/2008 10:48 AM: > I note that in the manpage for the "sort" utility, the -k flag syntax > claims that an "=" should be used between the flag and the argument(s). Thanks for the report. However, this is a misunderstandi

Re: bug in sort manpage: -k syntax is wrong

2008-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Jeff Lerman wrote: > I note that in the manpage for the "sort" utility, the -k flag syntax > claims that an "=" should be used between the flag and the argument(s). >-k, --key=POS1[,POS2] > start a key at POS1, end it at POS2 (origin 1) > This is incorrect and results in an er