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RE: sed and dos format
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:24:34 +0200
- Subject: RE: sed and dos format
Brian wrote:
> Regarding efficiency, I am strictly talking about the code path.
> Having Cygwin add a \r when the file is written the first time should
> be more efficient than reprocessing the whole thing after it's been
> processed the first time, or at the least reparsing the lines in an
> output filter pipeline to insert \r's.
Of course it would be more efficient, but as I wrote previously - one has to
have the consequences in mind.
> Again my reply was under the
> context of "lots of files that *must* remain DOS-mode" where
> accidently forgetting a u2d somewhere breaks things just as bad as
> some obscure text-mode bug in some app.
>
> This is beginning to get trollish so I will cease further comment in
> this thread.
;-) why is it a troll when you're discussion alternative ways of doing
things? I'm not sure whether this is amusing or something else.
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems --72-->
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