Re: Sed bug ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:17:56 -0700
> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> (hint - Windows notepad is not the ideal program for reading unix
> documentation).

But WordPad can handle them just fine.  (Not that I'd recommend anyone
to give up Less or some other good pager, but there's no need to
describe the Windows tools as totally useless, either.)

> > Sed is not inserting CRLF as EOLN, only LF.
> 
> Indeed, but this is not a bug; it is by design - if you use Unix tools,
> expect Unix line endings.

??? Whose design is that?  The Sed maintainers did not design any
Windows-specific behavior for Sed.  It is just a question of (1) what
runtime library is used for the standard I/O functions, and (2) how
hard was the person who ported Sed prepared to work to make Sed cope
with various subtle issues wrt text/binary I/O annoyance.