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Re: [ITP] flip-1.19 - Convert between Unix and Dos line endings


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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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