Re: include dos2unix/unix2dos in coreutils ?

[Pádraig Brady]

James Youngman wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
>> How about we create a miscutils project where these silly things can
>> be included?  Coreutils is after all not the dumping point for every
>> imaginable utility one can come up with, it is for core system
>> utilities, and dos2unix certainly does not fit into coreutils.
> 
> I'm somewhat positive about the idea, but this particular name has the
> problem that it's already used for other projects (or at least that is
> what searching for the name on the web would imply).

True.

Perhaps we could use the retired shellutils name?
Would that be too confusing?

Pádraig.