?RCS: $Id: trnl.U 1 2006-08-24 12:32:52Z rmanfredi $ ?RCS: ?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi ?RCS: ?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence, ?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution. ?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of ?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root ?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0. ?RCS: ?RCS: Copyright (c) 1998 Andy Dougherty ?RCS: ?RCS: Original author Jarkko Hietaniemi ?RCS: Merged into dist by Andy Dougherty July 13, 1998 ?RCS: ?MAKE:trnl: Nothing ?MAKE: -pick add $@ %< ?S:trnl: ?S: This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1) ?S: command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are ?S: '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where ?S: newline is not necessarily '\012'. ?S:. ?T: DJGPP : Find the appropriate value for a newline for tr echo " " ?X: We can't use $tr since that would cause a circular dependency via Myread ?X: dos djgpp uses '\015\012', but reportedly is happy with '\012' in the ?X: tr command. I don't know why it passes the '\n' test but later ?X: refuses to work correctly with it. --AD 6/14/98 if test -n "$DJGPP"; then trnl='\012' fi if test X"$trnl" = X; then case "`echo foo | tr '\n' x 2>/dev/null`" in foox) trnl='\n' ;; esac fi if test X"$trnl" = X; then case "`echo foo | tr '\012' x 2>/dev/null`" in foox) trnl='\012' ;; esac fi if test X"$trnl" = X; then case "`echo foo | tr '\r\n' xy 2>/dev/null`" in fooxy) trnl='\n\r' ;; esac fi if test X"$trnl" = X; then cat <&2 $me: Fatal Error: cannot figure out how to translate newlines with 'tr'. EOM exit 1 else echo "We'll use '$trnl' to transliterate a newline." fi