[bug #42151] inconsistent treatment of CRLF

[anonymous]

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                 Summary: inconsistent treatment of CRLF
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sun 20 Apr 2014 03:25:17 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Plain groff accepts Windows-style CRLF line terminators besides the Unix
standard LF. So does groff -t. But groff -e and groff -p
do not. (I have not tried other preprocessors.)

This inconsistency is easy to work around, but hard to defend.

Doug McIlroy
address@hidden




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