On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:11:35AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
I agree that the current behavior is confusing.  I'd prefer it if any
improperly formatted line caused a nonzero exit status.  Is there some
reason things are done the way that they are?

Presumably to dump e.g., a set of md5's in a readme file without having to strip the descriptive text.

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Michael Stone


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