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(FWD) Re: patch to accept \t as a character by `strings'
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- Subject: (FWD) Re: patch to accept \t as a character by `strings'
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at NUXI dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:45:44 -0700
- Organization: The NUXI BSD group
- Reply-To: obrien at NUXI dot com
----- Forwarded message from David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> -----
|> Below is a patch so that `strings' output matches that of other systems.
|> BSD since 1986/11/24 have defined <tab> to be a printable character (bug
|> report 4.3BSD/ucb/9). HP-UX (since at least 10.20), Irix (since at least
|> 5.3) also interprets <tab> this way.
Is there any problems with committing this to HEAD and the 2.10 branch?