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Re: [ITP] flip-1.19 - Convert between Unix and Dos line endings
- From: Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>
- To: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:40:23 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ITP] flip-1.19 - Convert between Unix and Dos line endings
- References: <k71zs4a8.fsf@blue.sea.net>
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Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
> ldesc: "Flip converts line endings of text files between MS-DOS and
> **IX formats. It detects binary files in a nearly foolproof way and
> leaves them alone unless you override this. It will also leave files
> alone that are already in the right format and preserves file
> timestamps. User interrupts are handled gracefully and no garbage or
> corrupted files left behind."
I guess that "detects binary" and "interrupts gracefully" are the main
reasons to prefer that over the "standard" dos2unix/unix2dos?
It may be enough, I never had such problems with dos2unix/unix2dos, but
I did never convert many files.
Another reason would be that maybe some "minimal" cygwin user might
prefer a small package instead of cygutils...
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