Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:58:06 -0800 (PST) From: byron@omix.com (Byron Brummer) To: zen@buddhist.com (G. Adam Stanislav) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting text files Message-ID: <199903150358.TAA07199@thrush.omix.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990313142919.008e2530@mail.bfm.org> from "G. Adam Stanislav" at "Mar 13, 99 02:29:19 pm"
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"G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> wrote:
> At 12:38 13-03-1999 -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> >Downloading, compiling, installing, and learning another program's syntax
> >is EASIERS then using two programs that already exist on the system and
> >have been used for a long time?
> >
> >Thanks, but no thanks.
>
> I did not know this was going to a mailing list. I simply followed a link
> at freebsd.org for contacting the authors of the FAQ.
FYI: For nearly every project on the Internet utilizing more then
the talents of a single person, expect any addresses to it to
actually be a mailing list. That's just the way it works best.
> And yes, using tuc is considerably simpler than running a perl script.
> There is no syntax to learn.
What's there to learn? The handbook gives you the syntax, the user
need only type it (or use a mouse to cut-n-paste).
If cutting and pasting a relatively simple command line is a problem
for the user, they should not be using Unix (IMHO). If the user
fears they will forget the command line there is always the options
of:
alias tuc="perl -i.bak -npe 's/\r\n/\n/g'"
Or save it to a command for all to use:
$ cat > /usr/local/bin/tuc
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -pi.bak
s/\r\n/\n/g
^D
$ chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/tuc
The basic point being that a "dos2unix" program is an entire one
line of Perl code (currently the most portable language on the
planet), is not used often (relatively speeking), and as such I
would see no reason to bother installing a C version. -Note that
perl is always installed on a FreeBSD system.
> At any rate, I was simply trying to offer a simple solution to the FreeBSD
> team, to use as they please if they please. I had no idea my message was
> going to go to FreeBSD users at large.
Actually, it went to the FreeBSD doc mailing list, not the user
(general) list.
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