Re: ed and ^M

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> While using ed on a file formatted with ^M's at the end of each
> line, the output could be quite disturbing:

Not really a surprise, I'd say.  AFAIK, files with CR characters in
them are not technically text files, by Unix standards.  Text
utilities are entitled to failing miserably in any way you do or don't
expect, with such input.


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
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