Re: utp, fast EOL converter (description)

[jsimmons@cs.sunysb.edu (Jason Simmons)]

In article <5N07frEzzhB@meadow.muc.de> schaf@meadow.muc.de (Soenke Behrens) writes:
>Hmm. I know that lf2cr worked directly on the file you gave to it,
>meaning basically that in case anything goes haywire, you lost your file.
>udl, in comparison, uses a temporary file for security. That makes it
>a bit slower (it has to copy the file over at the end), but so what
>the heck.

I admit that creating a temporary file would be safer, but I decided that
the extra speed justified the use of the original file since changing
LFs to CRs is a simple, low-risk procedure.  I have not received any
reports of lf2cr failures yet.

Jason Simmons
jsimmons@sbcs.sunysb.edu