Re: utp, fast EOL converter (description)

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

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.

You sure the real reason wasn't (at least originally) because you can't convert
Apple or UNIX to and from MS-DOS in place? :-)

>Just my $0.02

Hmm. Well then I'll mention my util, which I wrote because the utilities
"upper" and "lower" suck so bad. I added cr2lf and lf2cr conversion later
on. It supports both "in place" and from one file to another. Haven't named
it yet.  There are already enough of these utils hanging around. Nobody needs
another one :)

-Phil