On 19 October 2012 00:59, Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Cedric Blancher
> <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 13 October 2012 16:40, Glenn Fowler <g...@research.att.com> wrote:
>>> ast-ksh 2012-10-12 alpha posted
>>
>> LGTM (looks good to me), but od and tr are missing. We use the
>> combination of od+head+tail and ~(X) to classify binary files and tr
>> for quick&dirty conversion jobs (like dos2unix and Japanese
>> processing).
>
> For the log: In the ksh93-integration project we moved tr.c and od.c
> to libcmd as preparation to use these builtins to replace the
> (rotten&&unmaintained&&standard-violating) old versions in /usr/bin.
> Testing by Sun (PIT+standards) did work smoothly (except issues in
> "od" which were promptly fixed by Glenn and the issue that 'tr"
> doesn't support XPG6's "-C") ... so technically I don't see problems
> with moving those two to libcmd, too.

Thanks for lobbying :)

Ced
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Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com>
Institute Pasteur
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