Michael McConville wrote:
> Alexey Suslikov wrote:
> > Michael McConville <mmcconv1 <at> sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes:
> >
> > > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/c_ksh.c,v
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > - shprintf(newline);
> > > + shprintf("\n");
> >
> > In terms of portability, are you sure newline is \n on all platforms?
>
> I'm not. Do we do this sort of thing elsewhere in the toolchain, though?
> It seems that \n is often hardcoded in the ksh code, too.
I think it's time we drop ebcdic support or whatever this is from various base
tools. We're not running a museum.
We should be reasonably tolerant of posix compatibility for the sake of
portability, but nothing ridiculous.
