Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I like that idea. Do you want to implement it? > One complication would be multibyte characters in STRING, though. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
