Re: grep-2.4 and Macintosh files on GNU/Linux

[Paul Eggert]

> From: address@hidden (JF)
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:24:24 +0100
> 
> So I have changed grep, to introduce a new option that will allow all
> three formats in the same file at the same time.

In other words, you autoconvert input CRLF and plain CR to LF?

I don't see why grep should be a special case.
Don't you want this option to apply to all GNU text utilities?

Is there precedent for this in other utilities?  If so, we should look
to that precedent, for consistency.