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  • From: Chris Eleveld <ihermit2 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] detecting iconv names
  • Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 08:48:45 -0700 (PDT)

To interject my own 2 cents. In my scripting I have found sum -r to produce
more portable results and almost always be ther ecompared to cksum.

"Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com> wrote:> From: ZIGLIO Frediano
[mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it]
> Sent: May 2, 2003 9:04 AM
>
> > I'm doing some tests to test iconv.

We're thinking along the same lines. :-)

> > My intention is to convert some code and see results. Problem
> > is portability
...
> > Now, problem is perl. Does all system support perl?

We can't depend on Perl. I like Perl very much, but we shouldn't make Perl
a requirement, even for testing FreeTDS.

> Is cksum portable ?

Pretty much:

The cksum utility is expected to conform to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992
("POSIX.2").

--jkl


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