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Bug#393793: marked as done (col.1.gz: carriage return discussion)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #393793,
regarding col.1.gz: carriage return discussion
to be marked as done.

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Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 6.1.4
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/col.1.gz

Actually col removes carriage returns, in contrast to the man page.
$ echo -e bla\\r\ |od -c
0000000   b   l   a  \r      \n
0000006
$ echo -e bla\\r\ |col|od -c
0000000   b   l   a  \n
0000004
So mention it on the man page.

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On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 02:24:52AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Well, maybe it is. I'm not sure. However the man page would be clearer
> if it just listed exactly which bytes it filters right there at the top
> of the page.

Feel free to send a patch and a differently worded manpage. I don't think
though that this is a bug.

Michael

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