Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, if you can find a few other people who say > they'd like that functionality and make a good case > for it, I'll reconsider.
If you go that route, I'd suggest adding an option --suffix-alphabet=STRING, so that the user can specify an arbitrary alphabet to use when generating the suffix. The default STRING would be abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, as now. The current split.c is not portable to EBCDIC hosts, since it assumes that 'a' + 1 == 'b', 'b' + 1 == 'c', etc., and this is not true of EBCDIC hosts. Adding support for --suffix-alphabet should fix this bug as a side effect. One complication would be multibyte characters in STRING, though. Also, a question for Jesse: would "csplit" work for your particular application? It can generate numeric suffixes already. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
