On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
> This is what I get:
>
> ~/tmp% echo abababa > swab.txt
> ~/tmp% dd if=swab.txt of=swab.swab conv=swab
> 0+1 records in
> 0+1 records out
> ~/tmp% cat swab.swab
> bababa
> ~/tmp% dd --version
> dd (GNU fileutils) 4.0l
> Written by Paul
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Both the swab and the sync keywords fail to work correctly according to
>SUS, but the behavior is one I would classify as "broken", so I'm reticent
>to code this broken behavior into the spec as "differences".
>
>The SUS says that swab should "ignore" any
Dale:
Please pass them on to me and I'll give OpenLinux a try.
Doug
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Chris Yeoh wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:44:51AM -0400, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> > > > SUS, but the behavior is one I would classify as "broken", so I'm
> > > > reticent
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Chris Yeoh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:44:51AM -0400, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> > > SUS, but the behavior is one I would classify as "broken", so I'm reticent
> > > to code this broken behavior into the spec as "differences".
> > >
> > > Do I have to put these items in
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:44:51AM -0400, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> > SUS, but the behavior is one I would classify as "broken", so I'm reticent
> > to code this broken behavior into the spec as "differences".
> >
> > Do I have to put these items into the spec as "differences" or is there
> > some
Dale
You might want to look at dd in SUSv3. The wording in SUSv2
is from POSIX 1003.2, and there have been POSIX interpretations
in this area and the fixes are in SUSv3. Draft 6 of SUSv3 is now available at
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ (you need to join the Austin
Group reflector to get an acc
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Both the swab and the sync keywords fail to work correctly according to
> SUS, but the behavior is one I would classify as "broken", so I'm reticent
> to code this broken behavior into the spec as "differences".
>
> Do I have to put these items into the
Both the swab and the sync keywords fail to work correctly according to
SUS, but the behavior is one I would classify as "broken", so I'm reticent
to code this broken behavior into the spec as "differences".
The SUS says that swab should "ignore" any odd characters, but:
dd if=swab.txt of=swab.sw
