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Date:	Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:06:47 -0500
From:	Antony Courtney <antony AT apocalypse DOT org>
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To:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject:	Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> At 11:44 AM 11/29/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > > Nope.  If I leave CYGWIN unset, and run the Cygwin echo.exe explicitly:
> > >
> > > d:\users\antony>c:\cygwin\bin\echo.exe hello |od -c
> > > 0000000000     h   e   l   l   o  \r  \n
> > > 0000000007
> > >
> >
> >Ok, what happens if you `set CYGWIN=binmode' before you execute this?  Yea, I
> >could test it but I don't have access to *your* environment.
> 
> It works.  I tested it with 1.1.6.  This seems to indicate the default
> when CYGWIN isn't set has slipped to "nobinmode"...

Unfortunately, it's less consistent than that.  It seems that the default 
for pipes in Cygwin shells is "binmode", but for non-Cygwin shells is
"nobinmode".

	-antony

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Antony Courtney  
Grad. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale University
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