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Re: elusive failure in tests/stty/basic-1 on HP-UX
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: elusive failure in tests/stty/basic-1 on HP-UX |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:41:21 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > (However once sed is used I would probably go the entire way and do it
> > all with sed instead of the longer pipeline. :-)
>
> I suspect I wrote it that way because I *knew* tr ';' '\n'
> would do what I want (since we're guaranteed to be using the
> just-built GNU tr here), while I wasn't sure using sed to
> insert newlines would be portable enough.
I admit that I looked at sed very closely because in this case I was
using the HP-UX native sed and not GNU sed. I was very suspicious
that might be an issue. But the pattern and input line length was so
small that I could not believe that it was the problem. So your
feeling there was good.
> Not impossible, just the result of stty thinking the console is
> very narrow. You can reproduce the problem by running this:
>
> stty columns 1; stty -a; stty columns 80
Ah! Now I see. Yes, that looks like it.
> Thanks a lot for tracking that down.
> With all of your analysis, I think we can fix it now.
> I've made this change:
That works for me. Thanks!
Bob