tr '\012' ' ' produces no output!

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From: Steve Murphy
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:14

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> I  also had a problem generating  errno.h and one other file... turned
> out that I was using the gnu tr command. The GNU tr command, 
> tr  '\012'  ' ',  results in *NO  OUTPUT*,  while the /bin/tr  version
> works OK. I'd  pass this on to whoever  is supporting  the GNU tr, but
> the disk that source is on is down right now.....  So I don't know who
> to tell at the moment.

The purpose of the command is to take a list of things,  one per line,
and produce one line of input, a  list of items  separated by a space.
What gives?

murf

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