(For those interested: this is intented to extend the space between
characters to help people learning morse code by giving the brain some
extra time for acoustical pattern recognition.)
Note: I slightly cleaned up the submitted patch for minor stylistic
issues, and changed the default for the new -c option to be identical
to -w.
Submitted by: "Stephen P. Cravey" <cravey@gotbrains.org> N5UUU
MFC after: 2 weeks
PR: bin/81831
finder, be careful not to put your fingers or fingernails in your eye.
-- found in the users manual of the Nikon D2x camera,
a camera for professional photographers
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Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging
an armoured car to deliver credit card information from someone
living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.
-- Gene Spafford, Purdue University.
and RAND_MAX != LONG_MAX on 64-bit platforms.
PR: amd64/81279
Submitted by: Vivek Khera vivek at khera dot org
Submitted by: Adriaan de Groot groot at kde dot org
MFC after: 1 week
The former tip used `col -bx', which would not only discard
CR's, but also expand TAB's and remove BS'en. This effect is
not always wanted.
MFC after: 1 week
architecture independent. Besides the fixed-width types in
the header, the offsets are now stored as 64-bit off_t (also
in big endian format).
Tested on: i386, amd64, sparc64, ia64
e.g., by trimming all non-alphabet characters and whitespace,
converting to lowercase, and considering only first (or last)
N letters (maybe only consonants). The fortune editor then
displays all fortunes that have the same hash, and allows to
remove one of them. The rest is written to stdout.
Due to one of the bugs (^C was the first character of each line
when sorting), the -b option of sort(1) didn't take any effect,
so stay bug-compatible, and remove the -b option.