Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/04/04/06:52:59
Subj: Re: patch for <.sys\types.h>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Dear Eli Zaretskii,
On 04-04-99 at 03:52:29 EST you wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Mark E. wrote:
> >
> > It's too easy to forget! Perhaps if the port of the next version of the
> > diff utils converted backslashes to slashes?
>
> IMHO, it's none of Diff's business to do so. A user could
> legitimately want backslashes in the patch (e.g., to process the patch
> with some ancient DOS-based utility), and the users should have the
> freedom to do so without Diff being in their way. But freedom
> requires responsibility to deal with it...
>
Hear! Hear! Well said! One would do just as well to ask that gcc fix
coding blunders.
K.B. Williams
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