Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to Gary V. Vaughan on 10/1/2008 10:09 PM:
>>> I'm working on making m4 1.6 transparently handle NUL,
>>
>> Excellent! I made an attempt to do that myself on the 2.0 branch some
>> years ago, but it didn't go well so I never committed...
>
> The arg
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 02:46:38PM CEST:
>
> I'll add a blurb to the autoconf manual on sed mentioning that it cannot
> be used on binary files (although Posix already says that),
Isn't that obvious? I mean, of all classic unix text-related tools,
only very few operate on non-
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/1/2008 11:32 PM:
Hi Ralf, Gary,
>> Is there any portable way to process files that contain NUL bytes?
>
> tr? If you only need to compare for equality, then use cmp.
Equality is insufficient the way the test is c
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According to Gary V. Vaughan on 10/1/2008 10:09 PM:
>> I'm working on making m4 1.6 transparently handle NUL,
>
> Excellent! I made an attempt to do that myself on the 2.0 branch some
> years ago, but it didn't go well so I never committed...
The ar
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
Hi Eric,
On 2 Oct 2008, at 10:51, Eric Blake wrote:
Is there any portable way to process files that contain NUL bytes?
None that I'm aware of. Many GNU utilities are reasonably well
behaved with respect to '\0', and m4 is unusual to some extent in that
we don't handle them well ourselves.
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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
