Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling

[mlh]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:50:07PM -0500, John Meinel wrote:
> Well, it was indeed not too bad. The hard part is actually figuring out 
> how to handle processing the files. What I've chosen to do is fix file 
> permissions, but just scream and die for line ending issues. Permissions 
> are easy to change, line endings are potentially very dangerous to change.

You could let through perfectly reversible line-ending changes,
which cover 99.99% of your needs.

And scream and die if its mixed line-endings, or binary or whatever.

Matt