-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to J.B.W.Webber on 12/8/2005 5:28 PM: > > Probably not a bug, just a 'feature' that is > biting me : > I am calling ls from a high-level language : Apl : > MicroApl's AplX > (free download : http://www.microapl.co.uk/APL/index.html )
If it is a bug, it is in AplX and not in coreutils. > .quad Host 'c:\cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe -c /bin/ls' > > > I am getting a directory listing, but there are no separators > between the file names : > List.htmltsttxt.txtwaterhorse.co.htmlweb-page_search-list.txt It looks like the Apl tool is stripping \n characters from the output of ls. > > I have checked numerically for any non printing spacers and see nothing. > I believe that ls has worked fine, called this way, in the past. > > Other programs, such as catting a file etc., work fine, with the expected > CR characters. ls does NOT output CR characters; POSIX does not permit that. Typically, Windows tools in general do not interact very well with POSIX tools. You are probably going to find more help by asking on a list that deals with Windows issues (such as cygwin), or taking the issue to the Apl providers, rather than here. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDmP4084KuGfSFAYARAjN7AJ4447T9sP9XQHVzsTEP5Oh8MhF8QACgwxJ3 QQ1XftGerHmjElFyJYlBLGQ= =3cDc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
