From:	jeffdb AT netzone DOT com ("Mikey")
Subject:	Re: cat and binary files
10 Apr 1997 19:25:26 -0700 :
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Rebuilding would only fail miserably, IF you didn't reinstall your headers,
and source, after remounting with -b, UNIX, which gnu-win32 is supposed to
be an emulation of, dosen't recognize CR as a necessary line delimiter, nor
does it recognize in line EOF characters like ^Z.

So if you want the tools to act like they do under unix, you should
probably provide an environment as close to unix's as possible.

> BTW, I wouldn't recommend using binary mode.  I tried that briefly and
> found that rebuilding will fail rather miserably.
> 
writes:
> | >cat seems to stop before the end of input - I assume at an end of file
> | >character.  cat --help doesn't offer a binary flag.  How can I cat
> | 
> | Use the 'mount' command with the '-b' option to make sure that the
> ...
> | can be set to 1 to turn on the behavior where all files are treated as
> | binary (recommended).
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