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Re: include dos2unix/unix2dos in coreutils ?
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: include dos2unix/unix2dos in coreutils ? |
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Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:52:06 +0000 |
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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.
Re: include dos2unix/unix2dos in coreutils ?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/12/20