Attn: textutils maintainer (RE: grep: $ in PATTERN doesn't seem to work properly)

[Hannu E K Nevalainen]

$ cygcheck -f /bin/cat.exe
textutils-2.0.21-1

Can the attached patch be a candidate for inclusion?

It is all about cat.exe binary mode IO wrt stdin/out AFAIU.

Pierre A. H. wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:14:52AM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>> You (Shankar Unni) wrote:
>>> Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would appreciate if this DOS-text-ism could be removed.
>>>> Would applying the above patch have hard to handle side effects?
>>>> I guess some important scripts could be affected :-7 ...
>>>
>>> Umm, exactly what "fix" (change in behavior) did you have in mind?
>>
>>  To actually integrate the patch that Pierre mentioned.
>> Pierre, do you have it 'hanging around' still?
>
> See attached. I think it's the right one but I have not tried it
> recently.
>
> Pierre

Thanks Pierre, I'll be trying it myself as time permits. But I also hope
that it (or an adaption) gets into CVS.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems            --72-->

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