From: Kbwms AT aol DOT com
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 07:14:44 EDT
Subject: 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
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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