Re: Problems with dd and the keywords swab and sync

[Johannes Poehlmann <jhp@caldera.de>]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:38:14PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> dwarf:~# dd --version
> dd (fileutils) 4.0.37
> Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
> 
> Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

> No, it looks like dd is taking the "left over a" and dumping it to sysout
> when the "conversion" is complete. This isn't even close to "ignore".

Calderas dd also has the "extra output SUS v2 deviation".
Verified this in Calderas sources (dd from fileutils):

dd remembers a odd extra character and saves it for output 
in the next call fileutils-4.0i. 

I think dd should offer to configure this behaviour out.

Do we have to fear that some scripts and or applications 
rely on this false behaviour?
 
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