Re: Feature Requests?

[Matthew Woehlke]

ROBERT DVORACEK wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > Robert Dvoracek wrote:
> > > Hello.  Do you take feature requests here?
> > Sure.
>
>         Great.  I sent one a while back but I'm not sure if anyone got it.
> It was a request for a sort of binary file option in csplit which uses
> bytes instead of lines as a delmiter instead of endlines, e.g. offsets
> are in bytes instead of lines.

Ah. Yes, I see it sitting there, from Jul 25. Unfortunately that's the 
nature of FLOSS, sometimes no one is interested (or has time to reply). 
You can always pay someone to implement it if you aren't willing/able to 
do it yourself, though (as I'm not a coreutils maintainer) I couldn't 
speak to if it would be accepted as an official addition or not.

Although, I wonder if dd might be able to do what you need? (I'm not 
very familiar with dd...)

> > Please turn off your caps lock and refrain from double-posting :-).
>
>         Sorry about that.  I thought the first one got rejected because it
> wasn't plain text.  Gmail is doing the "caps lock" thing.  I'll try to
> fix it.

I thought it might be something like that, hence the attempt at a 
friendly notice rather than a serious complaint. Hmm, bummer about gmail 
though (but your first mail - in this thread, I mean - was fine).

--
Matthew
"Who wants to sing?" -- Orcs (Warcraft II)