Re: A serious bug in unix2dos/dos2unix

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From: Paul Bijnens
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:20

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In article <id.87XV.OQH@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) says:
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>Agreed. NO program on UNIX should EVER use the
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>        command inputfile [outputfile]
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>syntax. It's dangerous, counterintuitive (you can't use it as a filter), and
>inflexible. Indent does the same thing, which is why I have indent in a script
>that does "indent -st" here.

And don't forget "uniq"; it hasn't even a flag... :-(

Does anyone actually USE the behaviour of such programs?
(I mean: specifying the outputfile as an optional second argument)
Will there a lot of scripts be broken when you change this stupid
syntax?
--
Paul Bijnens             -- MS-DOS is the world's most widespread virus.
Linguistics dept., K. University Leuven, Belgium
Polleke@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be

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Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Friday, 18 Dec 1992 18:20:41 +01
From: Paul Bijnens <FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
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Subject: Re: A serious bug in unix2dos/dos2unix
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