>>>2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>> * NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text".
>>> * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it.
>>> * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it.
>
> That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying m
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Relevant clips from this cygwin bug report. When tty settings are weird
> (I'm not sure whether the bug is in cygwin, xterm, or just bad tty
> settings that could be reproduced elsewhere), backspace only repositions
> the cursor on screen, so that the actual
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According to Christopher Faylor on 5/7/2005 9:43 AM:
>>Which Bash bug is that?
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> Bash is the most important program for which 'that chdir("//") is
> currently no different from chdir("/")'.
Is that a bug in bash or in cygwin, though? The comments
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Relevant clips from this cygwin bug report. When tty settings are weird
(I'm not sure whether the bug is in cygwin, xterm, or just bad tty
settings that could be reproduced elsewhere), backspace only repositions
the cursor on screen, so that the actua
I'm suggesting a small and simple addition to `cut` options.
Sometimes it is very useful to add some text around each line of `cut`
output in a pipeline. Most people use `sed` or something as big as `sed`,
but it would be much better if you can add this text directly in cut
options. Furthermore, `c
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According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM:
> That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on "open"
> and "fcntl" to do the work? If they don't work, they should.
>
> I installed this into coreutils:
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> 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <[E
