Re: include dos2unix/unix2dos in coreutils ?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Matthew Woehlke on 11/10/2006 12:37 PM:
> > > No, please don't.  It means that programs change their behavior based
> > > upon their names.  When a the program is copied or renamed it no
> > > longer works the same.  Having been burned by that myself it is now
> > > one of my pet peeves.
> > ...so gzip, groff and vim are pet peeves? I guess I don't see the
> > problem as long as you can use options to override the defaults that
> > looking at argv[0] sets.
>
> Within coreutils alone, you have ls, dir, and vdir, all of which are built
> from basically the same sources, and all of which can behave like the
> others with the appropriate command line options.

Well, then, whichever way. We're drifting off the original topic, which 
was 'should d2u-and-friends (or equivalents) be added to coreutils?'. 
Can we address Mike's original question now, before he gets completely 
discouraged by this side-track? :-)

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Matthew
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